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Peer reviewedLambert, Jean-Luc – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Four groups of moderately retarded 7- to 13-year-old children (N =4 in each group) were trained to respond to a triangle with apex up (S+) and not to a triangle with apex down (S-), with and without errors. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedMulvaney, Dallas E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Two normal and two mentally retarded children were trained to earn pennies by pressing a key according to a multiple variable-interval extinction schedule of reinforcement. Retarded children differed from normal children by producing more positive than negative discriminative stimuli. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Mental Retardation
Download full textClinton, LeRoy – 1970
This study investigated the effects of between-trials variability on the alternation discrimination of retardates. Brightness and size were variable between trials and irrelevant. Initial response outcome and mental age were also independent variables. Neither between-trials variability nor mental age produced a significant main effect, while the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
Toister, Richard P.; Birnbrauer, J. S. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Experiment 1 supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Grant M2232. Experiment 2 submitted as the senior author's PhD dissertation at the University of Miami and supported by NIMH grant MH-14914.
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Extinction (Psychology), Handicapped Children, Mental Retardation
Van Wagenen, R. Keith; and others – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported in part by OE Project 5-0415.
Descriptors: Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedHarris, Lawrence M.; Tramontana, Joseph – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Children, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedFrisch, Sue Ann; Schumaker, Jean B. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1974
Three retarded children 3- to 11-years-old were trained, using prompting and reinforcement procedures, to respond correctly to three categories of prepositional requests (next to, under, and on top of). (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Language Instruction
