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Peer reviewedHalliday, M. S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
Three experiments are reported on behavioral inference in children of 3 to 5 years of age. In each experiment the children learned two separate sequences of behavior which they were required to put together in the final test stage in order to obtain a reward. (MS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Memory, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedFrieswyk, Siebolt H., Jr. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1977
Seeks to clarify the relative influence of social and biological motivation on discrimination learning in schizophrenic subjects to determine if schizophrenic attention deficit is subject to aversive social control. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Psychological Studies, Psychopathology, Reinforcement
Download full textSachs, David A. – 1972
Three studies, using handicapped children, investigated: effects of three different reinforcement contingencies (positive reinforcement, removal of positive reinforcement, and combination of positive reinforcement and removal of positive reinforcement) on a steady-state discrimination task; effect of a conditioned emotional response procedure on a…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Handicapped Children
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
