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Download full textFavell, Judith Elbert; And Others – 1968
In this study of errorless learning a procedure is tested which allows the subject himself to adjust the speed at which a supplementary stimulus aid is withdrawn. A standard match-to-sample apparatus with 1 sample window above and 4 matching (response) windows below was used. Tokens were delivered for correct responses and the correct matching…
Descriptors: Cues, Disadvantaged, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedGill, Timothy V.; Rumbaugh, Duane M. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Discrimination Learning, Intelligence, Learning Processes
LeBlanc, Judith M. – 1968
A sequence of studies compared two types of discrimination formation: errorless learning and trial-and-error procedures. The subjects were three boys and five girls from a university preschool. The children performed the experimental tasks at a typical match-to-sample apparatus with one sample window above and four match (response) windows below.…
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Preschool Children
Clunies-Ross, G. G. – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedSanders, Richard M. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Feedback
McAllister, Michael J.; And Others – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Discrimination Learning, Error Patterns, Hypothesis Testing
Ratliff, Richard G. – 1970
A series of investigations which simultaneously manipulated parameters of reinforcement and age and sex of children were conducted in order to further describe the learning process in children. In addition, an attempt was made to relate perceived parental discipline to performance in the discrimination learning tasks employed in this research. The…
Descriptors: Age, Children, Discipline, Discrimination Learning
Goldstein, Sondra Blevins; Siegel, Alexander W. – 1971
Eighty-four nine year old children, twelve in each of seven experimental groups, learned a two-choice successive discrimination problem. The parameters that were systematically manipulated included: (1) immediate versus delayed reinforcement; and (2) forced preresponse stimulus exposure versus stimulus exposure during the delay interval,…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning, Learning Processes, Perception
Peer reviewedEtaugh, Claire F.; Averill, Bonnie E. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Discrimination Learning, Labeling (of Persons), Learning Processes
Etaugh, Claire Falk – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Depth Perception, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedEtaugh, Claire F.; Pope, Barbara K. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
SPENCE, JANET T. – 1966
AS PART OF THE RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENCE OF RESPONSE-CONTINGENT REINFORCERS ON THE LEARNING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN, THE EFFECTS OF A LIMITED NUMBER OF VARIABLES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF CHILDREN OF THREE AGE LEVELS (4-5, 7-8, AND 10-11), SELECTED EQUALLY FROM MIDDLE- AND LOWER-CLASS BACKGROUNDS, WERE INVESTIGATED. THE EXPERIMENTAL…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Lower Class, Middle Class
Peer reviewedBalter, Lawrence; Fogarty, James – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedKemler, Deborah G. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Three studies of elementary school children's problem-solving procedures in intentional discrimination tasks are reported. Subjects were children selected from kindergarten and grades 2, 3, and 6. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
Bozinou, Efthymia; Goulet, L. R. – 1970
This study investigated the spontaneous use of verbal mediators in discrimination learning, the transfer of mediators to a free recall task, and the effects of a pretraining task on performance. The discrimination tasks required nursery school children (80) to: (1) sort three instances each of two different concepts in a conceptually consistent…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory
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