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Infant Speech Sound Discrimination: The Effects of Contingent versus Noncontingent Stimulus
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Williams, Lee; Golenski, John – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Infants, Reinforcement, Research
From Spontaneous to Instrumental Behavior: Kinematic Analysis of Movement Changes During Very Early Learning.
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Thelen, Esther; Fisher, Donna M. – Child Development, 1983
Subjects were six normal infants whose kicks were or were not reinforced. Examines how the temporal structure of kicking changed when infants learned a mobile task. Quantifies amplitude changes in spontaneous kicks versus those used operantly, and investigates whether reinforcement makes kicking more "efficient" through reducing…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Positive Reinforcement, Spontaneous Behavior
Immediate and Long-Term Memory for Reinforcement Context: The Development of Learned Expectancies in Early Infancy.
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Mast, Vicki K.; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Tested the persistence over 24 hours of reward-expectation habits in infants. A comparison was made between the responses of two groups of infants (infants with a history of reinforcement with large, complex mobiles, and infants with no prior history of reinforcement with mobiles) on a task reinforced by a small mobile. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Expectation, Habit Formation, Infants
Delayed Reinforcement and Vocalization Rates of Infants
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Ramey, Craig T.; Ourth, L. Lynn – Child Development, 1971
Results of this study indicate that learning occurred only under immediate reinforcement and that there was no developmental trend in the ability to withstand the detrimental effects of delayed reinforcement. (WY)
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Learning, Operant Conditioning
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
Synchronous Reinforcement of Vocal Responses in Failure-To-Thrive Infants
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Ramey, Craig T.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Data Analysis, Extinction (Psychology), Infant Mortality