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Conditional Discrimination by Adults with Mental Retardation: Establishing Relations between Physically Identical Stimuli.

Saunders, Kathryn J.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1995

The effectiveness of training procedures which used visual-visual arbitrary matching, blocked-trial matching-to-sample, and successive discrimination training to teach visual-visual discrimination of two-dimensional forms was evaluated with two men having severe mental retardation. Results indicated that the procedures did establish conditional…

Descriptors: Adults, Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Males

The Origins of Young Children's Perceived Control: Mother Contingent and Sensitive Behavior.

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Skinner, Ellen A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986

Investigates the belief that caregivers' sensitive and contingent behavior is closely related to children's perceived control by analyzing the interactions between mothers and their 3 1/2- to 4 1/2-year-old children during a problem-solving task. (HOD)

Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Child Caregivers