Using 130 rural, culturally deprived slow learning children, group operant and individual operant techniques were compared in classrooms of normal size. The results suggest that group contingencies ...

Rats were trained to respond with intravenous cocaine as the reinforcer under a fixed interval 15-min schedule, during which conditioned stimuli paired with cocaine were presented contingent on ...

The contingent reward system is a motivation-based system that is used to reward those that meet their identified goals. It provides positive reinforcement for a job well done. This reinforcement ...

It was hypothesized that socialization within an achievement-oriented culture would encourage children to adjust the amount of contingent self-reward according to the length and difficulty of a task.