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Exploration and Learning-To-Learn in Disadvantaged Preschoolers
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Walls, Richard T.; Rude, Stanley H. – Child Study Journal, 1975
This study assessed the effect of different novelty pairings and reward sequences on the exploratory behavior in successive discrimination learning problems of 60 preschool children from a Head Start program. (BRT)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Educationally Disadvantaged, Preschool Education, Responses
The Use of Categorical Concepts by Young Children In The Solution of A Multiple-Item Discrimination Learning Task
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Bleichfeld, Bruce; And Others – Child Study Journal, 1977
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Mediation Theory, Preschool Children
The Effects of Verbal and Material Rewards and Punishers on the Performance of Impulsive and Reflective Children
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Firestone, Philip; Douglas, Virginia I. – Child Study Journal, 1977
Impulsive and reflective children performed in a discrimination learning task which included four reinforcement conditions: verbal-reward, verbal-punishment, material-reward, and material-punishment. (SB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Cue Retention Across Extradimensional Shifts in Elementary School Children
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Cunningham, Thomas F.; Thaller, Karl E. – Child Study Journal, 1975
A total of 128 first- and second-graders participated in two sets of shift problems: (1) four extra-dimensional shifts; and (2) shift problems with two types of cue-reinforcement conditions (same and reversal). (ED)
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Cues, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning