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Peer reviewedWasik, Barbara H.; Wasik, John L. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1972
Study found that nonlearners, as well as learners, were unquestionably utilizing strategies at a rate greater than that expected on the basis of chance alone. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Disadvantaged, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1
Peer reviewedHarter, Susan; Zigler, Edward – Developmental Psychology, 1972
The effects of rate of stimulus presentation and reinforcement conditions on the two-choice discrimination learning performance of MA matched normal and familial retarded children were examined. (Authors)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children
Peer reviewedFergenson, P. Everett; Teichner, Warren H. – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cues, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedSanders, Richard M. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Feedback
Peer reviewedRydberg, Sven – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Attention Span, Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
Insalaco, Carl; Massey, Phillip S. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedCrosson, James E. – Mental Retardation, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Education
Download full textBlanton, Richard L.; And Others – 1984
The report presents summaries of 11 studies performed on 25-45 autistic students in a residential center to investigate processes of discrimination and response acquisition using automated reinforcement technology and exact timing procedures. The computer operated display and recording system for language and discrimination training is described…
Descriptors: Attention, Autism, Classification, Computer Assisted Instruction
Peer reviewedCunningham, Thomas F.; Thaller, Karl E. – Child Study Journal, 1975
A total of 128 first- and second-graders participated in two sets of shift problems: (1) four extra-dimensional shifts; and (2) shift problems with two types of cue-reinforcement conditions (same and reversal). (ED)
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Cues, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Gladstone, Roy – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Child Development, Children
Toister, Richard P.; Birnbrauer, J. S. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Experiment 1 supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Grant M2232. Experiment 2 submitted as the senior author's PhD dissertation at the University of Miami and supported by NIMH grant MH-14914.
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Extinction (Psychology), Handicapped Children, Mental Retardation
Hursh, Daniel E. – 1978
In Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior, three categories of environmental control over instances of verbal behavior appear to be relevant to the study of infant vocal development: the mand, the tact, and the echoic categories. Procedures used in the remediation of language deficiencies and procedures found in work in the area of language…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Discrimination Learning, Infants, Language Acquisition
Ratliff, Richard G. – 1970
A series of investigations which simultaneously manipulated parameters of reinforcement and age and sex of children were conducted in order to further describe the learning process in children. In addition, an attempt was made to relate perceived parental discipline to performance in the discrimination learning tasks employed in this research. The…
Descriptors: Age, Children, Discipline, Discrimination Learning
Goldstein, Sondra Blevins; Siegel, Alexander W. – 1971
Eighty-four nine year old children, twelve in each of seven experimental groups, learned a two-choice successive discrimination problem. The parameters that were systematically manipulated included: (1) immediate versus delayed reinforcement; and (2) forced preresponse stimulus exposure versus stimulus exposure during the delay interval,…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning, Learning Processes, Perception
Peer reviewedBucher, Bradley – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Results imply that sets of instructions may form a response class, with characteristics similar to those found in studies of generalized imitation. (Author)
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Emotional Disturbances
