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Drake, Chad E.; Wilson, Kelly G. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Conducting studies using an undergraduate participant pool is fraught with difficulties. Among them are problems with adequately motivating subjects both to come to the study, and once there, to actively engage the experimental task. Thirty-one college students participated in a matching-to-sample (MTS) study involving substantial training,…
Descriptors: Operant Conditioning, Student Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Studies
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Murrell, Amy R.; Wilson, Kelly G.; LaBorde, Cicely T.; Drake, Chad E.; Rogers, Leslie J. – Behavior Analyst Today, 2008
This study investigated the relationship between parenting stress and relational conditioning. Fourteen students who were not mothers, 14 mothers who reported high parenting stress and 14 mothers with low parenting stress completed two matching-to-sample (MTS) computer tasks, each requiring formation of three 3-member classes. The first MTS task…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Mothers, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship