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Direct linkMok, Leh Woon; Overmier, J. Bruce – Psychological Record, 2007
The differential outcomes effect is a phenomenon where use of a choice-unique outcome for each type of correct choice in a conditional discrimination task increases rate of learning and overall accuracy, as compared to the traditional use of a single, common outcome for all types of correct choices. This phenomenon was successfully demonstrated…
Descriptors: Rewards, Outcomes of Treatment, College Students, Sensory Training
Lobb, Harold – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Sensory Training, Tactual Visual Tests, Transfer of Training
Download full textHALL, VERNON C.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE OF FIVE VARIABLES (INITIAL INSTRUCTIONS, REWARD, LETTER SIZE, TYPE OF WARM-UP, AND FEEDBACK) ON KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN'S PERFORMANCE OF A LETTER DISCRIMINATION TASK. IT HAS BEEN ARGUED THAT ATTENTION IS THE KEY FACTOR IN LETTER DISCRIMINATION. THE PRESENT STUDY PROPOSES THAT A…
Descriptors: Attention, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Perception
Weimer, Michael; Miller, Asenath A. – 1974
The study attempted to minimize nonspecific response strategies which supposedly mask the positive effect of perceptual pretraining on initial discrimination learning within the predifferentiation paradigm. The subjects were 44 first- and second-graders. Experimental-group subjects received rules learning (RL), pretraining, initial discrimination…
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedGaines, Rosslyn – Child Development, 1970
The results show that selective attention to color or form can be experimentally changed and is not developmentally determined for all Ss. (WY)
Descriptors: Color, Discrimination Learning, Pictorial Stimuli, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedBrowne, Robert J.; Anderson, O. Roger – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Utilizing careful, empirical definitions of lesson kinetic structure, the authors tested two hypotheses: student content achievement is directly related to lesson content structure; and, awareness of commonality and theme development is directly related to lesson content structure. Student achievement seems to be related to communication…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Definitions, Discrimination Learning, Grade 9
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
Kolb, Doris H.; Etzel, Barbara C. – 1967
Several 3- to 5-year-old children participated in this study designed to discover the necessary procedures to establish nonresponding in preschool children during delay of reinforcement. The children were divided into two groups: (1) the programed group (PG), to which a 60-second delay period was introduced gradually and (2) the baseline group…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Positive Reinforcement, Preschool Children
Sherman, James A. – 1967
Two 4-year-old children were shown the use of an apparatus whereby they could obtain toys and candy by making certain responses. The apparatus was a matching-to-sample device on which were arranged five response buttons in a circle and one in the middle. Each response button had a display window for the stimulus. Four of the five windows on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Perception
Peer reviewedJohnson, Denise; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1978
Nine mentally handicapped adults were studied in order to assess the differential susceptibility of mentally handicapped individuals to sensory and social reinforcers. (Author/BD)
Descriptors: Adults, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedFernandez, Barbara Quigley; Richman, Charles L. – Journal of Psychology, 1979
Preschoolers learned colors more rapidly than sizes and forms when cup stimuli were used. They learned sizes and forms more rapidly than colors when face stimuli were used. (RL)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Perception, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Meadowcroft, Pamela; Holland, James G. – 1975
Investigators in this study looked for conditions that can rapidly establish continuous stimulus control of continuous response variations, or "response mapping." Unlike previous research in stimulus control, where a single stimulus comes to control a single response, 36 5-year-old children received errorless discrimination training at…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Learning
Medin, Douglas L. – 1973
This paper develops a stimulus selection theory, based on an extensive review of previous research, which gives weight to context change or stimulus generalization decrement. The theory assumes no special compounding or configurational process, and accounts for the learning of successive discriminations without the addition of any special process.…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Learning, Reinforcement
Peer reviewedSoraci, S. A., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
In a study of oddity performance, subjects were required to choose one distinct bimodal stimulus from a display that included other stimuli that did not differ from each other. Oddity performance was evaluated with both reversal assessments and assessments with new stimuli. The usefulness of bimodal training in oddity learning was demonstrated.…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Discrimination Learning, Experiential Learning, Multisensory Learning
Blanton, Richard L.; And Others – 1984
The report presents summaries of 11 studies performed on 25-45 autistic students in a residential center to investigate processes of discrimination and response acquisition using automated reinforcement technology and exact timing procedures. The computer operated display and recording system for language and discrimination training is described…
Descriptors: Attention, Autism, Classification, Computer Assisted Instruction
