Jeffrey W. Fagen, Phyllis S. Ohr, Jayne M. Singer and Lori K. Fleckenstein Infants who failed to complete a 2-day operant-conditioning task were compared with a stratified random sample of those who ...

Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...

Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 234-244 (11 pages) The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of the presence or absence of lyrics in ...