The results suggested that the procedure and recording technique could produce sensitive records of the conditioning of textual responses and that the reinforcement system was capable of maintaining work and attentional behaviors over long periods of time. The present study investigates the value of the materials, apparatus, and general procedure for producing reliable results relating independent variables to the dependent variable of reading acquisition, i.e., the effect upon reading rate of the manipulation of various reinforcement schedules, using multiple schedule tech¬niques. In addition to validating the extension of certain behavior principles to this complex type of human learning, the experiment test3 variables and procedures important to the further study of reading (and other types of child learning) and to the construction of an effective reading program.
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