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Sheppard, W. C. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Conditioning, Infant Behavior, Motor Development, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Hiram E.; Porges, Stephen W. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly of Behavior and Development, 1971
Summarizes research projects on infant behavior conducted during the 1960's and includes an extensive list of references. (AJ)
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Conditioning, Infant Behavior, Learning
Peer reviewedBloom, Kathleen; Esposito, Anita – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Presents two studies which investigated the effects of social stimulation on infant's vocalization rates. Experiment I focused on response-contingent and response-independent social stimulation. Experiment II focused on continuous or omitted social stimulation. In both studies, social stimulation increased vocalization and the rate of responding…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Infant Behavior, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement
Rovee, Carolyn Kent; Rovee, David T. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Conditioning, Infant Behavior, Operant Conditioning
Weisberg, Paul – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported by Grants MH-11699-01 and NB-04268 from the U.S. Public Health Service.
Descriptors: Behavior, Controlled Environment, Infant Behavior, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedMillar, W. Stuart – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1972
Initial experiment demonstrated operant acquisition of an instrumental hand-pulling response in 4-8-month-old infants; the effect achieved with contingent, noncontingent, delayed reinforcement, and the suppression, recovery, and facilitation effects of noncontingent stimulation are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Infant Behavior, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedFloccia, Caroline; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Three experiments examined whether newborns are sensitive to an operant-conditioning task involving unprepared relation between a response and a stimuli. Found that newborns tested under the High-Amplitude Sucking procedure were involved in an operant-learning situation, in that an increase in sucking rates could be obtained after an auditory…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Infant Behavior, Neonates, Operant Conditioning
Download full textFouts, Gregory T. – 1974
This paper presents a pilot study designed to suggest an experiential interpretation of the development of extreme activity levels in infants (specifically, hyperactivity) and to demonstrate that general activity in infants may be influenced by the reinforcement contingencies established by mothers. Subjects were three 13-week-old infants. Operant…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Hyperactivity, Infant Behavior, Operant Conditioning
Naito, Toru; Lipsitt, Lewis P. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
"The conditionability of the eyeblink response using a photocell method with human infants was explored... The data indicate the feasibility of studying such conditioning in young infants. (Author)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Change, Conditioning, Eye Movements
Peer reviewedMillar, W. Stuart; Schaffer, H. Rudolph – British Journal of Psychology, 1973
The present investigation was designed to compare the behavior of 6- and 9-month-old infants; visual as well as manipulative responses were recorded. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Feedback, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedTomlinson-Keasey, C. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Data Analysis, Family Environment
Van Wagenen, R. Keith; and others – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported in part by OE Project 5-0415.
Descriptors: Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Infant Behavior
Finkelstein, Neal W.; Ramey, Craig T. – 1975
This study investigated the effects of prior experience with contingent or noncontingent stimulation of infants' ability to learn different responses to control perceptual stimulation. In the pretest phase, baseline rates of level movement, panel press and vocal responding were determined for each of the twelve, 6-month-old infants in the study.…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Contingency Management, Infant Behavior
Millar, W. Stuart; Schaffer, H. Rudolph – 1972
Six- and nine-month-old infants were exposed to contingent or non-contingent perceptual stimulation from a source which was spatially displaced at 60 from the infant's midline. Reliable operant acquisition was observed in the case of the nine-month-old infants, but not in the case of the six-month-old infants whose performance was similar to that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Object Manipulation, Operant Conditioning
Dorman, Lynn; And Others – 1971
Visual fixation on one of two blank targets was reinforced with either visual or auditory stimuli in one of 3 intensity sequences: (1) low, medium, high; (2) medium, high, low; and (3) high, low, medium. An analysis of variance of learning scores for the 48 14-week-old infants resulted in a significant interaction of intensity and order and in a…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Eye Fixations, Infant Behavior, Learning Processes
