Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theory that frustration impedes learning, educators use teaching machines designed to prevent all errors and reward all successes. Last week Columbia University Psychologist Herbert Terrace asserted that the theory is wrong; his experiments with pigeons demonstrate that it is not frustration but a complete lack of it that blocks the process of learning...
...support of his view, Terrace cites the reactions of 200 pigeons, which were taught to distinguish red from green; they were rewarded with food when they pecked in response to a red light, but food was withheld when they pecked at the sight of green. Half got food every time they recognized the red light; for the others, reward was erratic...
When pigeons trained by the consistent method were switched to irregular reward, "they went to pieces," hitting their heads against the walls, flapping their wings, and pecking wildly at everything in sight. By contrast, birds trained on the intermittent system did not go wild when a correct peck failed to produce food. Instead, they stayed calm, continued to peck only at red, and soon were rewarded with the "deserved" snack...
...delegates into the convention. In a state with one of the nation's highest per capita union memberships and minimal anxiety about busing (the black population is only 4%), Humphrey's ties to organized labor and the state's Democratic machinery were sufficient to reward him with a handsome victory...
Named the most valuable player in the series by Sport magazine, Chamberlain received as his reward a Dodge station wagon. He needed it about as much as he needs another basketball. Wilt has just enough space at his new $ 1,500,000 home in Bel Air to garage the Dodge next to his Bentley, his Maserati and his Cadillac. When he will get a chance to drive the new car is another question. As usual, Bachelor Chamberlain plans to spend much of the off season traveling, adding the names of new countries to the list of 68 he has already...