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Peer reviewedLevine, Marvin – Psychological Review, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories, Responses
Miller, Adam; Swan, John – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Color, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedCarmean, Stephen L.; Carmean, C. Jean – Child Development, 1971
Results of 5 experiments supported the hypothesis that many nonlearners in a multipair visual discrimination learning task were following position rather than object strategies and that it was possible to predict individual subjects' strategies from previous performances. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing
Peer reviewedCunningham, Mark; Collins, Carol T. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
Kendler, Tracy S.; and others – J Exp Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Color, Cues, Difficulty Level
Seitz, Sue – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories, Mild Mental Retardation
Bullock, Donald H. – Performance and Instruction, 1982
Examines the influences of behaviorist psychology on performance and instruction technologies. The basic assumptions of behaviorism are outlined, reinforcing contingencies are reviewed, conditioning is described, and such specific topics as stimulus control, behavior chaining, and successive approximation are discussed. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Behavior Chaining, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning
Download full textBrigham, Thomas A.
A model for the analysis of simple human conceptual behavior, based on the apparent similarities of human conceptual behavior and that of infrahuman subjects, is developed. A minimum definition of conceptual behavior is given: A single response, verbal or nonverbal, under the discriminative control of a group of stimuli whose parameters are…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Children, Cognitive Development
ELLIS, NORMAN R. – 1963
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF 21 AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME ARE DEVOTED TO ASSESSING THE STATUS OF RESEARCH AND THEORY IN MENTAL DEFICIENCY, FOCUSING ATTENTION ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED. PART ONE IS CONCERNED WITH RESEARCH FINDINGS AND THEORIES TO EXPLAIN MENTAL DEFICIENCY. COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES REPRESENTED INCLUDE FIELD…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Behavior, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research
Glaser, Robert, Ed. – 1965
This collection of 17 papers relating behavioral science theory to the process of experimental education grew out of a 1963 National Education Association symposium on research in programed instruction. Perspectives and the technology of programing are described in this updated and supplemental successor to the source book, "Teaching Machines…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conferences, Discovery Learning
