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Partong, David A.; Fouts, Gregory T. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Positive Reinforcement, Reinforcement, Responses
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 reviewedPrimus, Michael A. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1987
Response and reinforcement features of operant discrimination paradigms used in audiometric assessment were investigated with normal 17-month-old children. Findings indicated more responses prior to onset of habituation when response tasks involved complex central processing skills and a twofold increase in number of subject responses when…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Discrimination Learning, Handicap Identification, Hearing Impairments
Kolb, Doris H.; Etzel, Barbara C. – 1967
Several 3- to 5-year-old children participated in this study designed to discover the necessary procedures to establish nonresponding in preschool children during delay of reinforcement. The children were divided into two groups: (1) the programed group (PG), to which a 60-second delay period was introduced gradually and (2) the baseline group…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Positive Reinforcement, Preschool Children
Sherman, James A. – 1967
Two 4-year-old children were shown the use of an apparatus whereby they could obtain toys and candy by making certain responses. The apparatus was a matching-to-sample device on which were arranged five response buttons in a circle and one in the middle. Each response button had a display window for the stimulus. Four of the five windows on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Perception
PDF pending restorationWhitman, Thomas L.; Taub, Susan Ilene – 1970
The present experiments investigated the effects of several classical conditioning manipulations on the performance of young children in an instrumental discrimination learning situation. Two predictions from general conditioning-extinction theory were tested: (1) acquisition of an instrumental response to a stimulus for a positive reinforcer in a…
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedBabad, Elisha Y.; Weisz, Paula – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
This study tested the prediction that a satiation effect would be observed only for noncontingent social stimuli, and not for groups presented with contingent stimuli. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Murray, Frank S.; Garrett, Elizabeth C. – 1976
In this study, the effects of rewards on same-different judgments of size, color, and weight were investigated. Subjects were 45 children at the kindergarten and first-grade level. The children were assigned to one of three conditions: (1) rewarded for reporting black in the identification of the colors of balls contained inside gray jars, (2)…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Kindergarten
Steinman, Warren M. – 1973
Six studies relevant to the analysis of generalized imitative behavior are described. The first examined the role of verbal instructions in generalized imitation by comparing the use of a "do this" instruction with no such instruction and the use of positive reinforcement with no reinforcement. The tenacity of generalized imitation in this study…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Discrimination Learning, Imitation, Instruction
Hamilton, Marshall L. – J Genet Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Learning Motivation
SPENCE, JANET T. – 1966
AS PART OF THE RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENCE OF RESPONSE-CONTINGENT REINFORCERS ON THE LEARNING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN, THE EFFECTS OF A LIMITED NUMBER OF VARIABLES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF CHILDREN OF THREE AGE LEVELS (4-5, 7-8, AND 10-11), SELECTED EQUALLY FROM MIDDLE- AND LOWER-CLASS BACKGROUNDS, WERE INVESTIGATED. THE EXPERIMENTAL…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Lower Class, Middle Class
