Reinforcement, Verbal
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Rehearsal strategies can enlarge or diminish the spacing effect: pure versus mixed lists and encoding strategy.

30 Aug 2009 Using 5 experiments, the authors explored the dependency of spacing effects on rehearsal patterns. Encouraging rehearsal borrowing produced opposing effects on mixed lists (containing both spaced and massed repetitions) and pure lists (containing ... Read more...

Naturalistic observations of elicited expressive communication of children with autism: an analysis of teacher instructions.

27 Feb 2009 This study observed expressive communication of 17 Australian and 15 Taiwanese children with autism who were mute or had limited spoken language during 2 hour regular school routines and analyzed teacher instructions associated with elicited ... Read more...

Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds.

30 Oct 2008 The current study investigated the influence of rewards on very young children's helping behavior. After 20-month-old infants received a material reward during a treatment phase, they subsequently were less likely to engage in further helping during ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Reinforcement, Verbal'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Rehearsal strategies can enlarge or diminish the spacing effect: pure versus mixed lists and encoding strategy. 30 Aug 2009
• Naturalistic observations of elicited expressive communication of children with autism: an analysis of teacher instructions. 27 Feb 2009
• Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds. 30 Oct 2008
• The effect of stimulus salience on over-selectivity. 25 Aug 2008
• Voice advisory manikin versus instructor facilitated training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 4 Aug 2008
• Instructions to "push as hard as you can" improve average chest compression depth in dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 15 Jul 2008
• Truth induction in young maltreated children: the effects of oath-taking and reassurance on true and false disclosures. 30 Jun 2008
• Influence of verbal and nonverbal references to print on preschoolers' visual attention to print during storybook reading. 29 Apr 2008
• When infants take mothers' advice: 18-month-olds integrate perceptual and social information to guide motor action. 29 Apr 2008
• A controlled single-case treatment of severe long-term selective mutism in a child with mental retardation. 18 Apr 2008
• A comparison of manual guidance and knowledge of results in the learning of a weight-bearing skill. 28 Feb 2008
• Increasing activity attendance and engagement in individuals with dementia using descriptive prompts. 30 Dec 2007
• Using a stimulus correlated with reprimands to suppress automatically maintained eye poking. 30 Dec 2007
• Object categorisation, object naming, and viewpoint independence in visual remembering: evidence from young children's drawings of a novel object. 30 Dec 2007
• A practical variation of a multiple-schedule procedure: brief schedule-correlated stimuli. 30 Dec 2007
• A comparison of general and specific instructions to promote task engagement and completion by a young man with Asperger syndrome. 30 Dec 2007
• "Please listen, it's my turn": instructional approaches, curricula and contexts for supporting communication and increasing access to inclusion. 29 Nov 2007
• Using memory restructuring strategy to enhance dental behaviour. 30 Oct 2007
• Motivational interviewing: an evidence-based approach to counseling helps patients follow treatment recommendations. 29 Sep 2007
• Assisting persons with multiple disabilities to move through simple occupational activities with automatic prompting. 22 Sep 2007

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Technical information about 'Reinforcement, Verbal'

Definition: Use of word stimulus to strengthen a response during learning.

Descriptor UI: D012057

Alternative terms: Reinforcement, Verbal; Reinforcements, Verbal; Verbal Reinforcement; Verbal Reinforcements;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.770.769;

History Note: 69(66)

Technical Notes: no qualif