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Peer reviewedParis, Scott G.; Cairns, Robert B. – Child Development, 1972
Research combined an experimental analysis of the cue properties of evaluative comments with a naturalistic account of the functions that such events serve in everyday interchanges. (Authors)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Interaction Process Analysis, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedTillman, M. T.; Smock, Charles D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Discrimination Learning, Error Patterns
Peer reviewedStevenson, Harold W.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discrimination Learning, Incidental Learning, Learning
Peer reviewedCantor, Joan H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Junior High School Students, Mediation Theory, Paired Associate Learning
Seitz, Sue – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories, Mild Mental Retardation
Coates, Brian; Moffitt, Alan R. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Differences
Download full textSPENCE, JANET T. – 1966
AS PART OF THE RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENCE OF RESPONSE-CONTINGENT REINFORCERS ON THE LEARNING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN, THE EFFECTS OF A LIMITED NUMBER OF VARIABLES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF CHILDREN OF THREE AGE LEVELS (4-5, 7-8, AND 10-11), SELECTED EQUALLY FROM MIDDLE- AND LOWER-CLASS BACKGROUNDS, WERE INVESTIGATED. THE EXPERIMENTAL…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Lower Class, Middle Class
Peer reviewedBrier, Norman; Jacobs, Paul I. – Child Development, 1972
A single administration of the reversal learning paradigm is not a sufficient basis for determining either a given subject's choice of option or his behavior on its constituent learning measures. This conclusion raises many questions about past research relating to mediation theory, since this paradigm has been the basic one employed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Grade 2
Peer reviewedPeretti, Peter O. – Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Color, Competitive Selection
Peer reviewedBalter, Lawrence; Fogarty, James – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedKemler, Deborah G. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Three studies of elementary school children's problem-solving procedures in intentional discrimination tasks are reported. Subjects were children selected from kindergarten and grades 2, 3, and 6. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
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TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF OVERTRAINING ON REVERSAL AND NONREVERSAL SHIFTS OF CUES, 96 NORMAL (MEAN AGE = 117 MONTHS, MEAN IQ = 109.8) AND 96 RETARDED CHILDREN (MEAN AGE = 119 MONTHS, MEAN IQ = 70.1) WERE TESTED ON A SIMULTANEOUS 2-CHOICE DISCRIMINATION TASK. SUBJECTS WERE TRAINED ON TWO LEVELS (CRITERION AND OVERTRAINING). FOLLOWING TRAINING ON THE…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Grade 4, Learning
Siegel, Alexander W.; Van Cara, Flo – 1970
One hundred and eight kindergarten and elementary school children, 36 at each of three age levels (5, 7, and 9 years) participated in the experiment. All children were presented a three-part successive discrimination task; original learning, presentation of incidental stimuli, and a test of recongition and recall of the incidental material.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
Bozinou, Efthymia; Goulet, L. R. – 1970
This study investigated the spontaneous use of verbal mediators in discrimination learning, the transfer of mediators to a free recall task, and the effects of a pretraining task on performance. The discrimination tasks required nursery school children (80) to: (1) sort three instances each of two different concepts in a conceptually consistent…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory
Peer reviewedBarclay, Craig R.; Gold, Marc W. – Mental Retardation, 1973
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
