Children's Perceived Contingencies of Teacher Reinforcements, Perceptions of Competence, and Academic Performance
Description:
There are two principal definitions of response-reinforcer contingency in the current literature which Scott and Piatt (1985) have labeled the phi coefficient and Rescorla index. For both definitions, contingencies are sensitive to two conditional probabilities of reinforcement, that given the occurrence and that given the non-occurrence of the criterion response. However, phi coefficient is sensitive also to the probability of the criterion response. In order to examine the relationship betwee…
more
Date:
August 1988
Creator:
Dietz, Don Anthony
Partner:
UNT Libraries