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Peer reviewedSchneider, H. G.; Ferrante, A. P. – Journal of Psychology, 1983
A total of 90 undergraduate volunteers learned a 12-pair, low-frequency verbal discrimination list. Independent variables were feedback (positive only, negative only, or both) and initial success (17, 50, or 83 percent correct on the first trial). While the main effect of feedback was not significant, that of initial success was. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Feedback, Higher Education, Success
Reese, Hayne W. – 1976
This book is an introduction to the psychological study of basic learning processes in children. Written for students who are not majors in psychology and who do not have much familiarity with the technical vocabulary of psychology, it has two themes: even the most basic kinds of learning are included by cognitive processes or mental activities;…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Conditioning
Peer reviewedRatliff, Richard G.; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1976
A total of 540 college students were run in two verbal discrimination learning studies (the second, a replication of the first) with one of three verbal reward conditions. In both studies, equal numbers of male and female subjects were run in each reward condition by each male and female experimenter. (MS)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, College Students, Discrimination Learning, Experimenter Characteristics
