Effects of task difficulty and type of contingency on students' allocation of responding to math worksheets

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-65

  Lannie, Amanda L ^a   Martens, Brian K ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic behavior; Reinforcement contingency; Response allocation; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442544525     PISSN: 00218855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2004.37-53     Document Type: Article

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