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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Reinforcement (Psychology)"”.
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Response patterning in goldfish: single alternation in a Pavlovian aversive paradigm
… reinstate alternation performance by increasing reinforcement magnitude and by giving extended training, but with little success. Although it was determined that neither a sensory aftereffects trace hypothesis nor a memorial representation hypothesis could exclusively account for the present …
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Effects of Contingent and Non-Continguent Tutor-Received Reinforcement on Peer Tutoring
… grade math students; under the conditions of no reinforcement, tutor-received reinforcement that is contingent upon tutee homework improvement, and tutor received non-contingent reinforcement; on low achieving seventh grade math students' performance and attitude change. Procedure: Ss served in …
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The Effects Of Systematically Fading Reinforcement While Maintaining Skills
1 PDF file (129 leaves)
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Behavioral Contrast and Alternative Response Key Availability
… investigated the interaction of schedules of reinforcement on behavior, replicating and extending Keller's (1 974) research. Expanded methodology included two control manipulations designed to clarify Keller's previously ambiguous findings. The influence of stimulus properties and the location …
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The relative contributions of preference and functionality in noncontingent reinforcement schedules
<p>Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR), the response-independent delivery of reinforcers, has been demonstrated to be an effective response suppression method for a variety of problem behaviors displayed by children. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether preference for specific …
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CONDITIONED REINFORCEMENT FROM SHOCK TERMINATION.
… it is made contingent. This test for conditioned reinforcement is incomplete because multiple stimulus functions will be established during conditioning trials that can influence the rate of responding. The solution to this multiple stimulus control problem involved the effects of reinforcement …
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Self-control as Response Produced Time-out from a Stimulus Associated with Reinforcement and Response Independent Shock
The problem: To control escape behavior (self-control) from a stimulus associated with response dependent food and response independent shock. Procedure: Five rats were trained in operant chambers to press a lever (lever A) for VI 30" food during one stimulus (S1) and never reinforced during …
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Patterning of Behavior in a Concurrent Variable-Interval Schedule as a Function of the Changeover Delay
… placement of licking in a concurrent schedule of reinforcement and to see how various changeover delays affect the temporal placement of licking. Procedure. Rats were trained to press a lever for food. Food was made available by two independent reinforcement schedules, separated by a changeover …
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Analysis and Modification of Unprogrammed Reinforcement Contingencies in a Hospital for the Developmentally Disabled
The problem: To design a reliable observation system for monitoring of hospital attendants' on-ward interactions with hospital residents and to increase the rate of positive consequences delivered by the attendants for appropriate resident behaviors. Procedure: An on-ward interaction recording …
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The effects of self-reliance on the successful use of self-reinforcement
… the relationship between the success of self-reinforcement (as defined by its effectiveness in increasing a given response) and a specific aspect of positive self-esteem that would seem most clearly related to the effectiveness of self-reinforcement, valuing one’s own opinions and judgements …
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Quantity versus quality : the opportunity to choose back-up reinforcers in a token economy
… would occur during conditions in which token reinforcement produced access to back-up reinforcers compared to a no reinforcement condition. Next, the opportunity to choose single versus varied token reinforcers was presented in a concurrent -chains arrangement. The dependent variables were the …
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The Effects of Teacher Reinforcement on Student Attitudes and Achievement
1 PDF file (66 pages)
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The Relative Effects of Immediate and Delayed Reinforcement on a Programed Learning Task
It was the purpose of this study (1) to compare the effects of immediate knowledge of results and delayed knowledge of results on a programed task to determine which, if either, would result in superior learning; and (2) to explore the effect of these two variables on the amount of retention of …
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Verbal Conditioning with Vicarious Reinforcement as Related to Peer Attitudes in Grade-School Children
… a verbal conditioning experiment using vicarious reinforcement, and to determine whether birth order or need for social approval had any effect on conditioning. Fifth grade and sixth grade students served as subjects, with performers (those to be directly reinforced) from the same grades as the …
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