The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 92, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 525-535 (11 pages) Children received contingent approval or noncontingent approval on a training task or performed the task without ...

"Noncontingent reinforcement" is a powerful technique that provides rewards regardless of behavior. With noncontingent reinforcement, rewards are consistently delivered on a schedule. The goal is to ...

After being exposed to a female model who exhibited aggressive behaviors and instructed S to imitate each aspect of the sequence, nursery school Ss were exposed to a male model displaying neutral ...

Rats were trained to respond with intravenous cocaine as the reinforcer under a fixed interval 15-min schedule, during which conditioned stimuli paired with cocaine were presented contingent on ...

To illustrate the use and potential efficiency of the co-twin control design for testing behavioral economic theories of child nutrition. Co-twin control design, in which participating twins ate an ad ...