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Maggs, Alex – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Attention Span, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation
Estevez, Angeles F.; Fuentes, Luis J.; Overmier, J. Bruce; Gonzalez, Carmen – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2003
In this study, 24 individuals (ages 6-37) with down syndrome had to learn a symbolic conditional discrimination task. Participants showed better terminal accuracy and faster learning of the task when the alternative correct responses were each followed by unique different outcomes than when nondifferential outcomes were arranged. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Contingency Management, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedWiig, Elisabeth H.; Berman, Leslie A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
Descriptors: Aphasia, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Discrimination Learning
Download full textHAUGHEY, BETTY E.; SHORT, JERRY – 1966
TWO STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING MULTIPLE-DISCRIMINATION TASKS WERE REPORTED. THE "MULTIPLE CONCEPT" PRESENTS SIMPLE DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL RELATED CONCEPTS AT THE BEGINNING OF INSTRUCTION. INCREASINGLY COMPLEX MATERIAL PERTAINING TO THESE CONCEPTS IS THEN GRADUALLY INTRODUCED. THE "SINGLE CONCEPT" PRESENTS ONE CONCEPT AT A TIME,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Discrimination Learning
