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Partong, David A.; Fouts, Gregory T. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Positive Reinforcement, Reinforcement, Responses
Peer reviewedCrowder, Aletha M. H.; Hohle, Raymond H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Feedback, Grade 1, Positive Reinforcement
Funderburk, Frank R., Jr. – Probe, 1974
Forty primary school students were randomly assigned into four groups based on the level of pretest approval provision and type of pretest task. The efficacy of social approval as a reinforcing stimulus was then tested on a two-choice discrimination learning task in which every correct response was reinforced by contingent approval presentation.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Positive Reinforcement
Download full textBlair, John Raymond – 1971
This investigation attempted to clarify the effects of different classes of reinforcement on the size discrimination learning of normal and low achieving third grade middle class boys. The classes of reinforcement consisted of tangible reinforcement, person reinforcement (praise), and performance reinforcement (correctness of response). Each of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Discrimination Learning, Grade 3, Learning Motivation
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 reviewedCairns, Robert B. – Child Development, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Extinction (Psychology), Negative Reinforcement, Positive Reinforcement
Funderburk, Frank R., Jr. – Probe, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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
Siegel, Alexander W.; Van Cara, Flo – 1970
One hundred and eight kindergarten and elementary school children, 36 at each of three age levels (5, 7, and 9 years) participated in the experiment. All children were presented a three-part successive discrimination task; original learning, presentation of incidental stimuli, and a test of recongition and recall of the incidental material.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
