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Peer reviewedMulvaney, Dallas E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Two normal and two mentally retarded children were trained to earn pennies by pressing a key according to a multiple variable-interval extinction schedule of reinforcement. Retarded children differed from normal children by producing more positive than negative discriminative stimuli. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedHildreth, Karen; Sweeney, Becky; Rovee-Collier, Carolyn – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Three experiments examined the memory-preserving effects of reactivation and reinstatement reminders following 6-month-olds' learning and forgetting of an operant task. Findings indicated that a single reactivation reminder extended infants' memory of an operant mobile task for 2 weeks, a single reinstatement extended it for 4 weeks. A single…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cues, Infant Behavior, Infants
