Resistance to Extinction and Frustration in Retarded and Nonretarded Children.

And Others; Viney, Linda L.

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Publication Date: 1973

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Resistance to Extinction and Frustration in Retarded and Nonretarded Children

And Others; Viney, Linda L.

American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 78, 3, 308-15, Nov 73

The responses of 20 trainable retarded children, 10 to 16 years of age, and 20 nonretarded 4- to 5-year-old children to social and nonsocial matching-to-sample tasks were compared during the extinction period which followed the use of social and nonsocial rewards. (Author)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Exceptional Child Research, Expectation, Failure, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Reinforcement, Task Performance

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