Reinforcement (Psychology)

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The 60-Second Nurse Educator: Creative strategies to inspire learning.

Educational content that is presented, attended to, remembered, and reinforced in a "fun setting" will have a greater likelihood of being learned. Creative strategies integrated throughout the learning environment are effective in increasing retention of ...
Judith W Herrman (Nurs Educ Perspect, 200209-10)
-second-nurse-educator-creative-strategies-inspire-learning.asp

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The impact of reinforcement density on response differentiation in configural discrimination problems.

Two human Pavlovian conditioning experiments investigated the impact of reinforcement density (the number of reinforced trials divided by the total number of trials) on discrimination learning. Experiment 1 used a negative patterning problem (A+, B+, ...
Harald Lachnit, Klaus Lober, Günter Reinhard, Martin Giurfa (Psychophysiology, 200209)
impact-reinforcement-density-response-differentiation-configural.asp

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Detection thresholds for intensity increments in a single harmonic of synthetic Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) monkey coo calls.

There is evidence that Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) are extremely sensitive to dynamic changes in the relative amplitudes of coo call harmonics during discrimination tests. To verify this evidence using more controlled stimulus configurations, the ...
Colleen G Le Prell, David B Moody (J Comp Psychol, 200209)
detection-thresholds-intensity-increments-single-harmonic-synthetic.asp

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Infants behavioral reenactment of "failed attempts": exploring the roles of emulation learning, stimulus enhancement, and understanding of intentions.

Two studies were conducted to examine whether infants reenactment of intended but unconsummated acts in A. N. Meltzoffs (1995) failed-attempt paradigm is due to reading the adults underlying intention or to the effects of nonimitative social learning ...
Chi-Tai Huang, Cecilia Heyes, Tony Charman (Dev Psychol, 200209)
infants-behavioral-reenactment-failed-attempts-exploring-roles.asp

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The effects of praise on childrens intrinsic motivation: a review and synthesis.

The authors argue against a purely behavioral definition of praise as verbal reinforcement in favor of the view that praise may serve to undermine, enhance, or have no effect on childrens intrinsic motivation, depending on a set of conceptual variables. ...
Jennifer Henderlong, Mark R Lepper (Psychol Bull, 200209)
effects-praise-children-s-intrinsic-motivation-review-synthesis.asp

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Sex differences in the subjective and reinforcing effects of cigarette nicotine dose.

RATIONALE: Some research with novel nicotine delivery methods suggests that nicotine itself may be less reinforcing in women than in men. However, sex differences in the reinforcing effects of nicotine dose via cigarette smoking have received little ...
Kenneth A Perkins, Lynette Jacobs, Mark Sanders, Anthony R Caggiula (Psychopharmacology (Berl), 200209)
sex-differences-subjective-reinforcing-effects-cigarette-nicotine-dose.asp

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Timed-event sequential analysis of agitation in nursing home residents during personal care interactions with nursing assistants.

Computer-assisted behavioral observation data were collected from 66 nursing home residents while they received assistance during personal care routines from a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Data were collected both before and after a comprehensive ...
David L Roth, Alan B Stevens, Louis D Burgio, Kathryn L Burgio (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200209)
timed-event-sequential-analysis-agitation-nursing-home-residents.asp

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Assessment of weight-error derivative (WED) analysis.

Lewandowsky in 1995 made an important contribution to the analysis of connectionist models by proposing WED analysis. Here it is argued that original WED analysis is not sufficient. An extension which consists of displaying not only the angles but also ...
Makoto Yamaguchi (Percept Mot Skills, 200208)
assessment-weight-error-derivative-wed-analysis.asp

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The two paradigms of persistence.

Persistence refers to the extent to which an individual pursues reinforcement that is no longer available. The most common generalization regarding persistence is the partial reinforcement extinction effect, which states that partial, rather than ...
David J Pittenger (Genet Soc Gen Psychol Monogr, 200208)
two-paradigms-persistence.asp

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The dynamics of intention retrieval and coordination of action in event-based prospective memory.

Event-based prospective memory requires responding to cues in the environment that are associated with a previously established intention. Some researchers believe that intentions reside in memory with an above baseline level of activation, a phenomenon ...
Richard L Marsh, Jason L Hicks, Valerie Watson (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200207)
dynamics-intention-retrieval-coordination-action-event-based.asp