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Download full textParis, Scott G.; Cairns, Robert B. – 1971
The effectiveness of positive and negative evaluative comments for children's learning was assessed in a two-choice discrimination task. Results indicate that negative comments after incorrect responses greatly facilitated learning while positive comments after correct responses had little effect. To explain the findings, a naturalistic analysis…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Elementary School Students, Learning, Learning Motivation
Peer reviewedMosley, James L. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Motivation, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedHamilton, David L.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Learning Processes, Males
Etaugh, Claire Falk – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Anxiety, Females, Learning Theories, Neurosis
Peer reviewedMinke, Karl A. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1972
Results indicated that verb emission increased significantly across time for experimental group subjects as compared with control groups subjects when the operant level procedure was omitted. (Author)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Conditioning, Data Analysis, Form Classes (Languages)
Peer reviewedBecker, Joseph; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Females
Peer reviewedSheehan, Peter W. – Psychological Reports, 1970
Descriptors: Bias, College Students, Experiments, Individual Characteristics
Shimoff, Eliot H.; Matthews, Byron A. – 1980
Five experiments were conducted to determine whether properties inherent in some training procedures may subtly influence the adaptability of skilled performance of complex tasks. The first two experiments assessed the insensitivity of low-rate performances. Examined in the third experiment was the issue of whether instructions that focus…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style
