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Recognition of Spoken Comments by a Teacher in a Learning Situation as Related to Children's Personality and Learning. Final Report.
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Solomon, Daniel; Yaeger, Judy – 1968
Some 96 fourth-grade boys participated in a study investigating the influence of personality and stimulus characteristics on perceptions of the meanings of verbal evaluations, and the functioning of differentially perceived evaluations as reinforcers in a learning task. Personality variables measured were anxiety, locus of control, need for…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Evaluation, Grade 4
Vicarious Reinforcement and Model's Behavior in Verbal Learning and Imitation
Kaplan, Karen Joyce – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Results indicate that Ss have a strong tendency to imitate a model, whether or not the model is reinforced or is successfully learning the task. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Extinction (Psychology), Imitation, Models
Type of Reinforcement and Generality in Verbal Operant Conditioning
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Unikel, Irving P.; Strain, G. S. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Generalization, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
The Effect of Reinforcement or Previously Learned Habits in Verbal Conditioning
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Laungani, D. – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Habit Formation, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
Learning Channels and Verbal Behavior
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Lin, Fan-Yu; Kubina, Richard M., Jr. – Behavior Analyst Today, 2004
This article reviews the basics of learning channels and how specification of stimuli can help enhance verbal behavior. This article will define learning channels and the role of the ability matrix in training verbal behavior.
Descriptors: Stimuli, Verbal Communication, Matrices, Learning Processes
Engineering Verbal Behavior.
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Sapon, Stanley M. – 1968
At the Child Language Development Center at the University of Rochester, basic research in children's verbal behavior and the exploration of procedures for extending successful laboratory techniques to the typical preschool setting are being continued. Experiments in contingency management and the establishment of requisite antecedent behaviors…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development Centers
Concept Learning through Direct Verbal Instruction in the Moderately Mentally Retarded.
Maggs, Alexander – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1977
This project successfully taught specific language-based concepts to retarded children with a behavior modification approach and direct verbal instruction, resulting in general intellectual gains. (See TM 504 595 for availability). (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
OPERANT PROCEDURES IN REMEDIAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TRAINING.
MACAULAY, BARBARA D., ED.; SLOANE, HOWARD N., JR., ED. – 1968
INTENDED FOR SPEECH THERAPISTS, THEACHERS OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED, AND OTHERS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, THE COLLECTION CONTAINS REPORTS BY VARIOUS AUTHORS ON SPEECH AND LANGUAGE MODIFICATION ATTEMPTS THAT HAVE UTILIZED OPERANT CONDITIONING PROCEDURES, AS WELL AS SEVERAL PAPERS ON BACKGROUND TOPICS. BACKGROUND PAPERS ON TEACHING TREAT ENVIRONMENTAL…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Articulation (Speech), Autism, Behavior Change