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Peer reviewedHaaf, Robert A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Grade 2, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedMcGraw, Kenneth O.; McCullers, John C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
To determine whether the distraction effect associated with material rewards in discrimination learning can account for the superior performance of reward groups in probability learning, the performance of 144 school children (preschool, second, and fifth grades) on a two-choice successive discrimination task was compared under three reinforcement…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Motivation
Peer reviewedWarren, Vera L.; Cairns, Robert B. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
The task for the research reported in this paper was to clarify the conditions that are responsible for the diminished effectiveness of social approval following pre-exposure. (Authors)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Experimental Psychology
Peer reviewedGaines, Rosslyn – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Study investigated the effect of the stimulus variables of value, chroma, and hue in relation to sex, intelligence, and dimensional attention of kindergarten children using two reward conditions. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Color, Discrimination Learning, Feedback
Peer reviewedGetsie, Rosemary L.; And Others – Review of Educational Research, 1985
To estimate the relative effects of three types and three combinations of feedback on children's discrimination learning, a meta-analysis was performed on the findings of 89 studies. In general, reward compared to punishment or to reward plus punishment is the least efficient method of feedback for teaching children discrimination materials.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Effect Size, Elementary Education, Feedback
