Infant Contingency/Extinction Performance After Observing Partial Reinforcement.

摘要: Social information gathering by infants 6 and 12 months old was examined as a foundation for later social learning that may be uniquely human. Infant performance on contingency/extinction task studied following caregiver demonstration of the contingency varied reinforcement schedules. Infants who observed caregivers receive any reinforcing stimulation in pretraining decreased responding over their own acquisition period, possibly because they began to habituate reinforcer. In extinction, partial were more persistent than others. This suggested direct experience with is not needed greater persistence extinction. These studies revealed details 1st year.