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O'Donnell, James P. – Child Develop, 1969
Research based upon a Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the Graduate School, University of Pittsburgh, and supported in part by U.S. Public Health Service grant MH-1290 and by the New York State Research Foundation.
Descriptors: Attention, Discrimination Learning, Instruction, Intelligence
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Goldstein, Sondra Blevins; Siegel, Alexander W. – Child Development, 1971
Study found that stimulus presence during a delay of reinforcement interval enhanced performance, and to a large extent prevented the usual delay-produced decrement. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Grade 3, Intervals
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Mulvaney, 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
Henderson, Ronald W. – 1971
This paper reports on alternative programs to current educational practice as a means of overcoming some institutional barriers to change. The program reported on the Tucson Early Education Model, a comprehensive educational program which encompasses all of the criterial attributes of the open classroom as specified in the introduction to this…
Descriptors: Child Development, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education