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The Role of Antecedent Positive and Negative Comments in the Control of Children's Behavior
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Redd, William H.; Winston, Andrew S. – Child Development, 1974
The relative effectiveness of positive and negative adult preference statements in controlling children's behavior was studied. Results indicated that the adult's antecedent negative comments exerted greater control over the children than did the positive comments. (ST)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Feedback, Preschool Children
Persistence as a Function of Conceptual Structure and Quality of Feedback
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Stuempfig, Daniel W.; Maehr, Martin L. – Child Development, 1970
Descriptors: Feedback, High School Students, Motivation, Reinforcement
The Effect of Delayed Feedback on Infant Learning Reexamined.
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Millar, W. Stuart; Watson, John S. – Child Development, 1979
Findings confirmed that whereas six- to eight-month-old infants revealed reliable acquisition under immediate reinforcement, a three-second delay precluded response acquisition, as did six-second and ten-second delay of reinforcement. A modified delayed-reinforcement scheduling procedure enabled a previous methodological criticism to be…
Descriptors: Feedback, Infants, Nonverbal Learning, Reinforcement
Denial of Suffering in the Victim as a Stimulus to Violence in Aggressive Boys
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Perry, David G.; Perry, Louise C. – Child Development, 1974
The effects of magnitude of victim's pain cues, the subject's characteristic lead of aggressiveness, and the level of prior anger arousal on aggressive behavior was studied in the elementary school boys. (ST)
Descriptors: Aggression, Denial (Psychology), Elementary School Students, Feedback
Effects of Children's Spontaneous Verbal Rehearsal on Learning Performance under Delay of Feedback
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Hensley, J. Higgins; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Feedback, Laboratory Experiments, Learning
The Child's Behavioral Pattern as a Determinant of Maternal Punitiveness.
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Mulhern, Raymond K., Jr.; Passman, Richard H. – Child Development, 1979
Acting on the premise that she was teaching her son a task, each of 30 mothers selected consequences for her child's errors. In actuality, feedback to the mother regarding her son's performance was experimentally manipulated. Results showed that differential conditioning of both high and low maternal punitiveness could be achieved by using the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conditioning, Early Childhood Education, Feedback