AGE DIFFERENCES IN THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT REINFORCEMENT COMBINATIONS ON THE ACQUISITION AND EXTINCTION OF A SIMPLE CONCEPT LEARNING PROBLEM.
The effectiveness of four combinations of reinforcers at two development levels was analyzed in this experiment. The combinations were Right-Wrong, Right-Nothing, Nothing-Wrong, and Buzzer-Nothing. It was assumed that the nothing aspects of these reinforcers would be sufficiently ambiguous to permit...
| Publicado en: | Child Development Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 419 - 430 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep1960
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