• DOI:10.3758/BF03342926
• Corpus ID: 146998313

Delay of reinforcement gradients in children’s learning

@article{Walters1964DelayOR,
  title={Delay of reinforcement gradients in children’s learning},
  author={Richard H. Walters},
  journal={Psychonomic Science},
  year={1964},
  volume={1},
  pages={307-308},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:146998313}
}

• R. H. Walters
• Published 1964
• Psychology
• Psychonomic Science

Ninety Grade 2 children were randomly assigned to one of nine conditions in a study of the effects of concurrent delay of reward and delay of punishment on children’s learning. Three levels of delay of reward and three levels of delay of punishment, 0, 10, and 30 sec. in each case, were selected for study. Both increasing delay of reward and increasing delay of punishment significantly increased the number of errors made during learning. 

Ninety Grade 2 children were randomly assigned to one of nine conditions in a study of the effects of concurrent delay of reward and delay of punishment on children’s learning. Three levels of delay of reward and three levels of delay of punishment, 0, 10, and 30 sec. in each case, were selected for study. Both increasing delay of reward and increasing delay of punishment significantly increased the number of errors made during learning.