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Singer-Dudek, Jessica; Greer, R. Douglas; Schmelzkopf, Jeannine – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
This study sought to further investigate the effects of an observational intervention for two participants on the reinforcing property of pieces of string. Pre-observational intervention data showed that the neutral stimuli (strings) did not function to reinforce two participants' responding to a performance task or learning three new skills that…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Intervention, Observational Learning, Reinforcement
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Happaney, Keith; Zelazo, Philip David – Brain and Cognition, 2004
Extinction of operantly conditioned responses, which provides a measure of the ability to adapt to changes in the reinforcement value of stimuli, has been linked to orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in human and non-human animals. This article examines the feasibility of using extinction as a measure of the development of OFC function in preschool-age…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Operant Conditioning, Stimuli, Learning Processes