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Peer reviewedCafferata, Gail Lee – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1980
A role theoretical model for understanding changes in health and illness behaviors among college students is described. Behavior changes are related to the expectations of others in the college setting. (JMF)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Peer Influence
Direct linkPeterson, Gail B. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2004
Despite the seminal studies of response differentiation by the method of successive approximation detailed in chapter 8 of "The Behavior of Organisms" (1938), B. F. Skinner never actually shaped an operant response by hand until a memorable incident of startling serendipity on the top floor of a flour mill in Minneapolis in 1943. That occasion…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Physical Environment, Verbal Stimuli, Behavior Patterns
