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Estevez, Angeles F.; Fuentes, Luis J.; Overmier, J. Bruce; Gonzalez, Carmen – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2003
In this study, 24 individuals (ages 6-37) with down syndrome had to learn a symbolic conditional discrimination task. Participants showed better terminal accuracy and faster learning of the task when the alternative correct responses were each followed by unique different outcomes than when nondifferential outcomes were arranged. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Contingency Management, Discrimination Learning
