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Kelsay, Bruce; And Others – 1984
Research has indicated that children learn material evaluated as positive more readily than negatively assessed material. This finding is termed a positive reinforcement value effect. The study extended the research in this area, focusing on the effects of intelligence, self-concept, and age on the affective learning styles of 55 children, (6-11…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Intelligence Quotient, Mild Mental Retardation
Elliott, Stephen N. – 1984
Research on clients' perceptions of the acceptability of psychological treatments has grown out of concern for social validity and has resulted in the development of a hypothetical model to explain how individuals might select treatments. This model involves four components: (1) acceptability of treatment; (2) use of treatment; (3) integrity of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Salisbury, Jean E. T. – 1990
The paper describes the use of an operant procedure to assess the speech perception of 11 young (7 to 35 months old) hearing impaired children and 11 normally hearing subjects. Subjects were presented with a repeating background stimulus and conditioned to turn their head on presentation of a contrasting syllable. The head-turning responses were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Download full textLaVoie, Joseph C.; And Others – 1976
Children's self-control behavior in motor and cognitive tasks was examined in a series of two studies in which modeling and self-regulatory mechanisms were varied to assess the influence of each. In the first study, 6-, 7-, 9-, and 11-year-old children individually played a 20-trial game of 'Simon Says' (involving activation and inhibition trials)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Wierzbicki, Michael – 1992
P. M. Lewinsohn has theorized that depression is related to the amount of positive reinforcement that an individual receives. Lewinsohn has supported this model in adults by showing that depression is correlated with an increase in unpleasant activities and a decrease in pleasant activities. This study extended Lewinsohn's model by developing…
Descriptors: Activities, Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences
Duncan, Elaine – 1983
Diversity is welcomed at the Jefferson Davis Campus, Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College, where the commuting students include teenagers, retired military personnel, displaced homemakers, the foreign-born, blacks, the full-time employed, and senior citizens. The students are counseled to take a reading and study skills class if their reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Age Groups
