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Oddity and Match-to-Sample Tasks as the Components of a Chained Schedule with Retarded Children
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Smeets, Paul M.; Striefel, Sebastian – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning
Patterns of Learning by Handicapped Infants.
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Brinker, Richard P.; Lewis, Michael – 1981
Patterns of learning by five infants with Down's syndrome (3.5 to 12.5 months old) were studied. The children were visited at home 2 to 3 times per week for periods ranging from 1 to 8 months. Two of the children were reinforced for pulling a string attached around their wrist. Consequences included tape recordings of music or their mother's…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Down Syndrome, Exceptional Child Research, Infants
Using Withdrawal of Positive Reinforcement to Alter Subtraction Performance
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Lovitt, Thomas C.; Smith, Deborah D. – Exceptional Children, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Children, Exceptional Child Research
Use of the von Restorff Effect to Condition Rehearsal in Retarded Children
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Jacobs, J. Walter; Foshee, Donald P. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Reducing the Disparity Between Model Stimulus and Imitative Response in Two Autistic Subjects
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Woods, Thomas S. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1978
Two autistic boys, ages 6 and 10 years, whose imitative responding was functionally inaccurate and whose performance generalized poorly, were trained to imitate accurately using a reinforcement-extinction strategy. (DLS)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Children, Exceptional Child Research
Vigilance and Verbal Conditioning in the Mildly and Severely Retarded
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Das, J. P. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1970
Descriptors: Attention Span, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Individualized Diagnosis and Program Planning for Process Learning Deficits in Mathematics.
Kratochwill, Thomas R.; Severson, Roger A. – 1974
Discussed in a paper which was presented at the 1974 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association are diagnostic procedures for instructional planning to be used with learning disabled elementary school children handicapped in the area of mathematics. Traditional diagnostic approaches such as intelligence tests are criticized.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Conceptual Schemes, Diagnostic Teaching, Dyscalculia