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Myers, Nancy A.; Myers, Jerome L. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported by University of Massachusetts Faculty Research Grant, National Institute of Mental Health grant MH-03803-06, and National Science Foundation grant GS-386.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Download full textSherman, James A. – 1967
Two 4-year-old children were shown the use of an apparatus whereby they could obtain toys and candy by making certain responses. The apparatus was a matching-to-sample device on which were arranged five response buttons in a circle and one in the middle. Each response button had a display window for the stimulus. Four of the five windows on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Perception
Peer reviewedYeh, Joyce Ching-Yi Wu – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Paper is based on a dissertation submitted to Brown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Psychology, June, 1966.
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Analysis of Variance, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Smothergill, D. W.; Cook, Harold – 1969
The author initially cites the associationistic position of Spiker and the perceptual learning position of E. Gibson and concludes that the existing data does not clearly support either hypothesis. He describes a new approach designed to test these explanations of the role of verbal pretraining on subsequent discrimination learning. It consists of…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Walls, Richard T. – 1968
One control group and eight experimental groups, each composed of 12 first grade children, participated in this experiment. It was designed to investigate the effects of frequency of reinforcement and repeated evaluation of stimuli on the conditioning of preferences. Each child participated in the experiment for seven consecutive school days. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
