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Fairbank, Doreen; And Others – Volta Review, 1986
Hearing-impaired 6- to 13-year-olds (N=24), trained to discriminate between two stimulus complexes differing in shape, direction, and number, were asked to discriminate between individual characteristics in all possible pair combinations. General failure to respond to all characteristics equally suggested that hearing-impaired children tend to be…
Descriptors: Children, Discrimination Learning, Hearing Impairments, Patterned Responses
Aist, Eugene H.; Gerlach, Vernon S. – 1973
Additional support to a stimulus-response (S-R) association by the use of an extraneous stimulus is called "prompting." Prompting has an effect on learner achievement particularly if the prompting agent is identical on successive S-R trials. This experiment sought to analyze the differences in learner achievement when different prompting stimuli…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Electronics
Nunnally, Jum C. – 1968
The research concerned the association of neutral objects, such as nonsense syllables, with rewards, such as money and candy, in children. Thirty-six subjects were obtained from grades two through six of local public elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee. Associations between neutral objects and rewards were formed in a task concerning…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning