Seventy-eight 8- and 9-year-old subjects were randomly assigned to success, failure, and control conditions involving a test of intellectual ability. Subsequently, they were exposed to a resistance to temptation test involving play with a forbidden toy and measures of latency were taken. (JMB)

Study was conducted to determine the effect a rule had on a child who was subsequently exposed to conforming or deviant verbalizations and/or behavior displayed by a televised peer model. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to examine self-reinforcement as an agent of behavior change with children who were deficient in desired attention behaviors. Twenty three first and second grade school children were taught through external reinforcement procedures to raise their level of attention on a simple discrimination task. Subjects in one…