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Download full textFavell, Judith Elbert; And Others – 1968
In this study of errorless learning a procedure is tested which allows the subject himself to adjust the speed at which a supplementary stimulus aid is withdrawn. A standard match-to-sample apparatus with 1 sample window above and 4 matching (response) windows below was used. Tokens were delivered for correct responses and the correct matching…
Descriptors: Cues, Disadvantaged, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedMasters, John C.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Mastery Learning, Preschool Education, Rewards
Peer reviewedBerman, Phyllis W. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The age effect in this study was such that younger children required proportionately more experience with reward than nonreward before they were able to improve their performance on reward problems over six sessions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedBerman, Phyllis W. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Motivation
Berke, Melvyn; Johnson, Edward E. – 1967
It was the purpose of this study to ascertain whether the culturally disadvantaged child, who appeared to adhere to the principle of immediate gratification, had learned, as a function of his participation in Head Start, a more future-related orientation when compared to his non-Head Start counterparts. One hundred and eighty-seven 4- and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Discrimination Learning, Factor Analysis, Incentives
Peer reviewedBlair, John R.; Fox, Bruce R. – Psychological Reports, 1973
Institutionalized mentally retarded children performed on a two-choice discrimination task under one of six conditions of reward. One indication of the results was that response-contingent non-consumable rewards were not more distracting than response-contingent consumable rewards. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Discrimination Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
BERMAN, PHYLLIS W. – 1965
THE ERROR FACTORS WHICH OPERATE DURING THE DISCRIMINATION LEARNING OF NORMAL CHILDREN WERE STUDIED. THREE EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED TO COMPARE RESPONSE-SHIFT AND RESPONSE-PRESERVERATION TENDENCIES OF DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS. THE FIRST EXPERIMENT INCLUDED 4-, 6-, 8-, AND 10-YEAR-OLDS WHO WERE GIVEN REWARD AND NONREWARD PROBLEMS. THE SECOND EXPERIMENT…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Experimental Programs
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
