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EFFECTS OF IMPOSED POSTFEEDBACK DELAYS IN PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION
- Source :
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. 27:483-491
- Publication Year :
- 1994
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1994.
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Abstract
- Imposed postfeedback delays promote discrimination training; the present experiments determined whether they also improve performance in programmed instruction. In two experiments, college students completed 45 sets of Holland and Skinner's (1961) programmed text on behavior analysis in a computerized format in a three-component multiple schedule. In Experiment 1, the conditions were (a) no delay between questions, (b) a 10-s delay after each question (noncontingent delay), and (c) a 10-s delay after each question answered incorrectly (contingent delay). Noncontingent delay produced better performance than no delay and contingent delay. To determine whether performance increased in the noncontingent delay condition because subjects studied the material during delay periods, Experiment 2 tested three conditions: (a) no delay between questions, (b) a 10-s delay after each question (noncontingent delay), and (c) a 10-s delay after each question with the screen blank during the delay period. Noncontingent delay produced better performance than no delay, but there was no difference in performance between no delay and noncontingent delay with blank screen. Hence, noncontingent delay improved performance because students used delay periods to study. Furthermore, subjects preferred noncontingent delay to the other conditions, and session time increased only slightly.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Sociology and Political Science
Programmed text
Computer-based instruction
Computer-Assisted Instruction
Audiology
Feedback regulation
Programmed instruction
Developmental psychology
Philosophy
Improved performance
medicine
Delay periods
Discrimination training
Psychology
Research Articles
Applied Psychology
Hardware_LOGICDESIGN
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19383703 and 00218855
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4639ffb598ef8c44b38812e49daaf317
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1994.27-483