Time-delay discrimination training with impulsive children: self-monitoring nonwait responses and the dimensions of prompts.
This study investigated whether in time-delay discrimination training, the performance of impulsive children can be improved by requiring self-monitoring of the correctness of nonwait responses, and to what extent these improvements are a function of the dimensions of the prompts. Four experiments, in each of which multiple prompts were used, one for each stimulus (S+, S-), were done. Comparisons between time delay of distinctive- and nondistinctive-feature prompts, with and without self-monitoring, were made across and within subjects. Time delay of distinctive-feature prompts without self-monitoring did not produce learning. The added requirement of self-monitoring nonwait responses led to a dramatic improvement in performance, but only when distinctive-feature cues were used for prompting and self-monitoring.
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Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Leiden, Holland.
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D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011930:Reaction Time; D013998:Time Perception