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Pre-verbal Infants' Selective Operant Responses for Different Levels of Auditory Complexity and Language Redundancy. Summary.
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Wisdom, Sara S.; Friedlander, Bernard Z. – 1971
Sixteen 9-18 month normal/superior infants "played" in their home cribs with a two-channel operant "toy" which allowed free choice between alternate audio feedbacks. With more than 300,000 seconds of listening time in the response record, 12 babies successfully discriminated gross differences in auditory complexity, while 10 discriminated fine…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning
Reception Training Effects on the Production of Modeled Language Constructions
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Vasta, Ross; Teitelbaum, Michael – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
This study tested the hypothesis that the reported increase in children's use of prepositional phrases when exposed to novel (inverted) prepositional phrases could be eliminated by discrimination training in two prepositional forms. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Naming of Meaningful Nonverbal Sounds by Blind Children
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Bartholomeus, Bonnie – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Blindness, Child Development
Development of Naming Responses to Meaningful Nonverbal Sounds
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Bartholomeus, Bonnie N.; Doehring, Donald G. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Discrimination Learning
The Effects of Infant Day Care on Psychological Development.
Kagan, Jerome; And Others – 1975
This is a partial report of a longitudinal investigation designed to assess the psychological effects of an experimentally conducted day care program on children during the first 30 months of life. The experimental subjects were Chinese and Caucasian children from working and middle class families who were cared for at a special group care center…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Attention, Child Development, Child Rearing