NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Elementary and Secondary…2
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 196 to 210 of 817 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ju, Winifred C.; Hayes, Steven C. – Psychological Record, 2008
The present study examined whether the presentation of stimuli in equivalence relations with consequences increases the operant behavior that produces these consequences. In Experiment 1, both normal words and experimentally trained equivalence stimuli did so with young children. In Experiment 2, results were similar with college students. Here, a…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Verbal Stimuli, Experiments, College Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Singer-Dudek, Jessica; Greer, R. Douglas; Schmelzkopf, Jeannine – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
This study sought to further investigate the effects of an observational intervention for two participants on the reinforcing property of pieces of string. Pre-observational intervention data showed that the neutral stimuli (strings) did not function to reinforce two participants' responding to a performance task or learning three new skills that…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Intervention, Observational Learning, Reinforcement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Baxter, Douglas A.; Byrne, John H. – Learning & Memory, 2006
Feeding behavior of Aplysia provides an excellent model system for analyzing and comparing mechanisms underlying appetitive classical conditioning and reward operant conditioning. Behavioral protocols have been developed for both forms of associative learning, both of which increase the occurrence of biting following training. Because the neural…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Associative Learning
Christ, Susann – 1974
This paper reviews several issues regarding one- versus two-factor theories of learning. First, the traditional distinctions between classical and operant conditioning are presented. This includes both theoretical and experimental contrasts. Second, empirical evidence in support for a one-factor theory is examined. Numerous research studies…
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Cognitive Processes, Conditioning, Learning Theories
Miller, Frank D.; Moffat, Gene H. – 1970
A major concern of this report was to compare the effect of three verbal reinforcement combinations (VRCs) on the rate at which children learn a simultaneous two-choice discrimination problem. The experiments were designed to test the following: (1) whether relative effectiveness of the VRCs was dependent upon task complexity or subject age; (2)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Aoyama, Kenjiro – Learning and Motivation, 2007
This study tested the effects of post-session wheel running on within-session changes in operant responding. Lever-pressing by six rats was reinforced by a food pellet under a continuous reinforcement (CRF) schedule in 30-min sessions. Two different flavored food pellets were used as reinforcers. In the wheel conditions, 30-min operant-sessions…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Klein, Emily D.; Gehrke, Brenda J.; Green, Thomas A.; Zentall, Thomas R.; Bardo, Michael T. – Learning and Motivation, 2007
The purpose of the present experiment was to determine whether repeated cocaine exposure differentially affects sucrose-reinforced operant responding in rats raised in an enriched condition (EC) or an isolated condition (IC). Specifically, the performance of EC and IC rats pressing a lever for sucrose under a high fixed-ratio schedule (FR 30)…
Descriptors: Cues, Cocaine, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Doughty, Shannon S.; Anderson, Cynthia M.; Doughty, Adam H.; Williams, Dean C.; Saunders, Kathryn J. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
The purpose of this experiment was to establish discriminative control of responding by an antecedent stimulus using differential punishment because the results of past studies on this topic have been mixed. Three adults with mental retardation who exhibited stereotypy not maintained by social consequences (i.e., automatic reinforcement)…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Punishment, Adults, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Tonneau, François – Behavior Analyst Today, 2004
The behavioral processes through which people react appropriately to verbal descriptions remain poorly understood. I argue here that these processes are Pavlovian. Common objections to a Pavlovian account of symbolic behavior evidence a lack of familiarity with the relevant data or misunderstandings of operant theory. Although much remains to be…
Descriptors: Behavior, Verbal Communication, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
Sheppard, W. C. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Conditioning, Infant Behavior, Motor Development, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Oliveira-Castro, Jorge M.; James, Victoria K.; Foxall, Gordon R. – Psychological Record, 2007
Purchase probability as a function of interpurchase time was examined through comparison of findings from laboratory experiments on reinforcement schedules and from marketing investigations of consumers' interpurchase time. Panel data, based on a sample of 80 consumers who purchased nine supermarket food products during 16 weeks, were used. For…
Descriptors: Investigations, Consumer Economics, Probability, Laboratory Experiments
Rovee, Carolyn Kent; Rovee, David T. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Conditioning, Infant Behavior, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Urcuioli, Peter J.; Lionello-DeNolf, Karen; Michalek, Sarah; Vasconcelos, Marco – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
Pigeons were trained on many-to-one matching in which pairs of samples, each consisting of a visual stimulus and a distinctive pattern of center-key responding, occasioned the same reinforced comparison choice. Acquired equivalence between the visual and response samples then was evaluated by reinforcing new comparison choices to one set of…
Descriptors: Animals, Responses, Visual Stimuli, Reinforcement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Burgos, Jose E. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
This article presents an interpretation of autoshaping, and positive and negative automaintenance, based on a neural-network model. The model makes no distinction between operant and respondent learning mechanisms, and takes into account knowledge of hippocampal and dopaminergic systems. Four simulations were run, each one using an "A-B-A" design…
Descriptors: Brain, Models, Neurological Organization, Simulation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nevin, John A.; Davison, Michael; Odum, Amy L.; Shahan, Timothy A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
A theory of attending and reinforcement in conditional discriminations (Nevin, Davison, & Shahan, 2005) is extended to working memory in delayed matching to sample by adding terms for disruption of attending during the retention interval. Like its predecessor, the theory assumes that reinforcers and disruptors affect the independent probabilities…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Attention, Reinforcement, Short Term Memory
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  ...  |  55