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| Ali, Faizunisa A. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedHamilton, Marshall L. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
A child's history of reinforcement is regarded as setting a standard that determines what current rates of reinforcement will be deprivational or satiational for him. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedStephens, Mark W.; Delys, Pamela – Developmental Psychology, 1973
This paper (a) describes the rationale and development of the Stephens-Delys Reinforcement Contingency Interview method for assessing locus of control expectancies in children as young as preschool age and (b) summarizes results of subsequent studies bearing on reliability, validity, and problems of the method. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Correlation, Data Analysis, Early Experience, Expectation
Peer reviewedSolomon, Daniel; Ali, Faizunisa A. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Major findings of this study are that (a) there is an increasing tendency, with increasing age, to make differential use of different communication channels according to the aspect of meaning considered, and (b) the relative importance of intonation to perceptions of affective meaning increases with age. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedHarter, Susan; Zigler, Edward – Developmental Psychology, 1972
The effects of rate of stimulus presentation and reinforcement conditions on the two-choice discrimination learning performance of MA matched normal and familial retarded children were examined. (Authors)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children
Peer reviewedSpear, Paul S.; Spear, Sara Allen – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Main effect of reinforcement for mean response latency indicated that subjects took longer to respond under disapproval than under approval or silence. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedRamey, Crain T.; Watson, John S. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Findings indicate that infant boys may be more easily conditioned by visual reinforcement than are girls. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedMcMurtry, C. Allen; Williams, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Study was aimed at determining whether positive adjectives and negative adjectives possess the oppositeness" (mutual exclusiveness) necessary for their conceptualization as defining the extremes of a single dimension of meaning. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Attitude Measures, Data Analysis, Evaluative Thinking
Peer reviewedZigler, Edward; Balla, David – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Implications of the findings for the programming of institutions for the retarded are discussed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Handicapped Children
Peer reviewedHelper, Malcolm M.; Quinlivan, Mary Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The relative weakness of sex-role labels as reinforcers, and the disappearance of differential effectiveness of male and female labels at the fourth-grade level would appear to be congruent with Kohlberg's (1966) cognitively based theory of sex-role acquisition. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Females
Peer reviewedSchroeder, Gerald L.; Baer, Donald M. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Increase in probe accuracy following concurrent training was consistently greater than following serial training. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Exceptional Child Research, Handicapped Children, Imitation
