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Ginther, Dean W.; Brazas, Adam T. – 1986
The contribution of decentration as an underlying component of discrimination learning and discrimination shift behavior was investigated in this study. In addition, the effect of verbal labeling and the relationship of academic achievement to discrimination learning and decentration was considered. The subjects were 120 first grade students who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1
Download full textLANE, HARLAN – 1964
THE PROCESSES OF EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMING OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE ARE EXAMINED ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF OPERANT CONDITIONING, WHICH IS THE BASIS OF PROGRAMING TECHNIQUES. DISCUSSION OF FORMAL REPERTOIRES COVERS THE USE OF SUCH CONDITIONING METHODS AS DISCRIMINATION LEARNING AND TRANSFER, STIMULUS GENERALIZATION, RESPONSE GENERALIZATION, AND…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Descriptive Linguistics, Discrimination Learning, Language Laboratories
Glaser, Robert – 1969
A study of response latency in a drill-and-practice task showed that variability in latency measures could be reduced by the use of self-pacing procedures, but not by the detailed analysis of latency into separate components. Experiments carried out on instructional history variables in teaching a mirror image, oblique line discrimination, showed…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitudes, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction
Staats, Arthur W.; And Others – 1970
An experiement was conducted to test the hypothesis that interest inventory items would function as reinforcing stimuli in a visual discrimination task. When previously rated liked and disliked items from the Strong Vocational Interest Blank were differentially presented following one of two responses, subjects learned to respond to the stimulus…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Etzel, Barbara C.; And Others – 1967
This document is the final report to the Institute of Educational Development for Head Start Research Evaluation activities at the University of Kansas for 1966-67. It contains 16 separate reports of studies completed or in the process of completion. The subject matter of the reports contains 15 distinct topics and warrants individual abstracts.…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Disadvantaged, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Education
Weiss, Louis – 1971
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the assumption that auditory discrimination and pronunciation in a foreign language are closely related. If the assumption were to be well-founded, then it might be possible for foreign language students with high auditory discrimination ability to work alone in the language…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests, Conditioning
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
