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Conditioning Tendency among Preschool and Primary School Children: Cross-Sectional Research
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Coskun, Kerem – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2019
The present study aims to understand children's behavior within classroom settings in terms of conditioning theories. It was designed based on grounded theory. Data were collected through participant observation and 98 children whose ages varied between 6 and 10 years were observed. Data were inductively analyzed. Findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Age Differences, Operant Conditioning
The Effect of Verbal Reinforcement on Children's Learning. Final Report.
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Miller, Frank D.; Moffat, Gene H. – 1970
A major concern of this report was to compare the effect of three verbal reinforcement combinations (VRCs) on the rate at which children learn a simultaneous two-choice discrimination problem. The experiments were designed to test the following: (1) whether relative effectiveness of the VRCs was dependent upon task complexity or subject age; (2)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Psychological Applications and Trends 2018
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2018, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Operant Responding of Nondeprived Young and Senescent Male Albino Rats
Goodrick, Charles L. – J Genet Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Animal Husbandry, Animals
Assessment of Auditory Speech Perception in Hearing-Impaired Infants.
Salisbury, Jean E. T. – 1990
The paper describes the use of an operant procedure to assess the speech perception of 11 young (7 to 35 months old) hearing impaired children and 11 normally hearing subjects. Subjects were presented with a repeating background stimulus and conditioned to turn their head on presentation of a contrasting syllable. The head-turning responses were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Conditioning 1-6 Month Old Infants by Means of Myoelectrically Controlled Reinforcement.
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Stack, Dale M.; McDonnell, Paul M. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1995
In order to evaluate possibilities of fitting myoelectrically controlled prosthetic arms on infants, this study examined whether 32 infants (1-6 months) could learn to control environmental contingencies by means of contracting the forearm flexor muscle group. Results indicated that older subjects (age greater than 104 days) demonstrated learning,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Amputations, Cognitive Development, Infants
The Switch Task for Children: Measuring Mental Flexibility in Young Children
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Dibbets, Pauline; Jolles, Jellemer – Cognitive Development, 2006
Age-related changes in mental flexibility, in the form of task switching, were assessed in 292 children (58-156 months old). Task switching was examined with a new task for young children, the Switch Task for Children (STC). The STC consists of two easy, comparable games and does not require reading skills, which makes it suitable for children…
Descriptors: Memory, Young Children, Preadolescents, Cognitive Development