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Peer reviewedFeldstein, Jerome H.; Witryol, Sam L. – Child Development, 1971
The major hypothesis, that uncertainty reduction acts as an incentive was generally confirmed for 60 fourth grades. (WY)
Descriptors: Grade 4, Motivation, Reinforcement, Rewards
Peer reviewedHaaf, Robert A.; Smith, Joel A. – Child Development, 1976
Three experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between developmental differences in reinforcer preference value and in learning-set performance. A second purpose was to investigate ontogenetic differences in the effects of experience with continuous but qualitatively inconsistent reward. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedRamey, Craig T.; Goulet, L. R. – Child Development, 1971
Male school children of three age levels were tested on a 2-choice visual discrimination task that varied in spatial continguity of stimulus, response, and reward. Separation of stimulus from response and reward was found to retard learning. (WY)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6
Peer reviewedBarton, Keith – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Grade 4, Grade 5, Nonverbal Ability
