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Redd, William H.; Winston, Andrew S. – Child Development, 1974
The relative effectiveness of positive and negative adult preference statements in controlling children's behavior was studied. Results indicated that the adult's antecedent negative comments exerted greater control over the children than did the positive comments. (ST)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Feedback, Preschool Children
Tighe, Thomas J.; Tighe, Louise S. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Mediation Theory
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O'leary, Susan G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Children's avoidance responses were conditioned and then extinguished in a laboratory analog of a social threat situation. (DP)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Extinction (Psychology), Kindergarten
Tighe, Thomas J.; Tighe, Louise S – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported by Public Health Service Research Grant MH-11088 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1, Perception
Watson, John S.; Danielson, Gary – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported in part by OEO Headstart Subcontract No. 1410 with Michigan State University Headstart Evaluation and Research Center.
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Development, Classification, Cognitive Ability
Kendler, H. H.; Kendler, T. S. – Hum Develop, 1970
Discrimination - learning behavior of children is analyzed in terms of two theoretical orientaitons: the mediational - attention conception, and a coordinated single-unit and mediational S-R formulation. The influence of verbal labels and other symbolic representational responses is discussed. (NH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories, Mediation Theory
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Crosson, James E. – Mental Retardation, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Education
Reeves, John M.; Michael, William B. – 1972
The purpose of this investigation was to ascertain whether the age specific expectations of Piaget's theory (1965) regarding the development of moral judgment in children from four to seven years of age were modifiable through use of a certain adaptation of Bandura and McDonald's imitative learning paradigm which had utilized adult models. In this…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Child Psychology