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Effects of Interspersing Rates on Students Performance on and Preferences for Mathematics Assignments: Testing the Discrete Task Completion Hypothesis
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Cates, Gary L.; Erkfritz, Karyn N. – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
The current study investigated the discreet task completion hypothesis presented by C. H. Skinner (2002) by investigating how the rate of interspersing affects performance on and preferences for academic assignments. Specifically, 70 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students were presented with four assignment pairs of multiplication problems.…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Assignments, Performance Based Assessment, Student Attitudes
Attention to Components or Compounds as a Factor in Discrimination Transfer Performance.
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House, Betty J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
Two groups of mentally retarded children (MA: 4 to 8 years) were pretrained using two different methods. It was predicted that shift performance of the two groups trained to use different strategies would resemble those of two different developmental levels. (MP)
Descriptors: Attention, Children, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning
Dichotomous Choices On Life-Dilemma Problems, Subjective Expected Utility, and the Group Shift Effect
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Jacobson, Marsha B. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1975
Subjects responded to risk and caution life-dilemma problems in either a group discussion or a control procedure. Before and after experimental treatment, subjects filled in a questionnaire involving whether or not the character in the dilemma should take the risk. Results are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Group Dynamics, Problem Solving
Training Problem Solving Skills in Fourth-Graders: Supplementary Analysis
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Houtz, John; Feldhusen, John – Journal of Psychology, 1977
Provides additional data to explain the reverse effects of rewards on task performances for training problem-solving skills in fourth-graders. (RL)
Descriptors: Children, Contingency Management, Grade 4, Performance Factors
Transfer of Training: Effects of Successive Pretraining of Components in a Dimension-Abstracted Oddity Task
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Campione, Joseph C.; Brown, Ann L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Investigates the effects of training two components of a dimension-abstracted oddity problem, oddity responding and attention, in a series of three problems. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attention, Context Clues, Elementary School Students
Investigating Children's Understanding of Inversion Using the Missing Number Paradigm
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Gilmore, Camilla K. – Cognitive Development, 2006
The development of conceptual understanding in arithmetic is a gradual process and children may make use of a concept in some situations before others. Previous research has demonstrated that when children are given arithmetic problems with an inverse relationship they can infer that the initial and final quantities are the same. However, we do…
Descriptors: Inferences, Arithmetic, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Concepts
Decentration, Discriminative Shift Behavior, Verbal Mediation, and Academic Achievement in Young Children.
Ginther, Dean W.; Brazas, Adam T. – 1986
The contribution of decentration as an underlying component of discrimination learning and discrimination shift behavior was investigated in this study. In addition, the effect of verbal labeling and the relationship of academic achievement to discrimination learning and decentration was considered. The subjects were 120 first grade students who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1