Effect of spatial separation of stimulus, response, and reinforcement on selective learning in children.

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Sixty children of 2 age levels were randomly assigned for training under 5 possible combinations of spatial contiguity or separation of stimulus, response, and reinforcement. Two levels of stimulus difficulty were used. Children learned only in the 2 conditions where stimulus and response were contiguous. Previous evidence indicating that monkeys learned under stimulus-reward contiguity was shown probably to be a matter of transfer of training from previous training under conditions of stimulus-response contiguity in a repeated-measures design. Age was not an important variable in learning the easy discrimination, and the difficult discrimination proved to be too difficult for both age groups.

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