Schedules of Reinforcement: Effects on Academic Persistence and Attributional Development
Description:
Twenty-one special education children failing to persist after failure on arithmetic problems were given 15 days of treatment in three arithmetic training programs, equivalent in all respects except that success experiences occurred either 46.2%, 76.9%, or 100% of the time. Following training, children in both the 46.2% and 100% reinforcement, groups continued to show serious performance deterioration following failure, while children in the 76.9% group showed marked improvement. An inventory m…
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Date:
December 1979
Creator:
Dietz, Don Anthony