Effectiveness of Social and Correctness Reinforcers with Different Aged Children
- 1 December 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 33 (3) , 787-792
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1973.33.3.787
Abstract
The effectiveness of two classes of verbal reinforcers, correctness and social, were examined among 108 second-, fifth-, and eighth-grade, middle-class children using a marble-sorting task. Results indicated that correctness reinforcement was more rewarding across all levels of age than social approval; however, a post hoc analysis of the age by treatment effect indicated a significant reinforcer effect for only the eighth-grade Ss.Keywords
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