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Download full textMiller, 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
Ahammer, Inge M.; Goulet, L. R. – Child Develop, 1969
Based on an MA thesis (Ahammer) submitted to West Virginia University.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Reinforcement
Peer reviewedHelper, Malcolm M.; Quinlivan, Mary Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The relative weakness of sex-role labels as reinforcers, and the disappearance of differential effectiveness of male and female labels at the fourth-grade level would appear to be congruent with Kohlberg's (1966) cognitively based theory of sex-role acquisition. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Females
Peer reviewedStack, 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
