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Schutz, Samuel R.; And Others – 1974
This study analyzed the mental distractions of students while reading a text. Ss were asked to press a switch to record mental distractions as they occurred, and a treatment was designed to attempt to reduce the number of distractions. The hypothesis related to the treatment effect was that students given explicit training to reduce distractions…
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Conditioning
Rago, James J., Jr. – 1972
Summarized is a therapy approach utilizing characterizations designed to help the client reduce his neurotic behaviors and develop his true potentials. Growing up, he may have been forced to reject aspects of his personality to meet others' expectations. Thus, he is not integrated or whole. To reduce the control used to hide his rejected parts of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Identification (Psychology), Models
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Zener, Rita Schaefer – NAMTA Journal, 1999
Defines normalization and deviations in child development. Discusses the three different levels in the normalization process. Asserts that guiding the process of normalization should drive the practice of Montessori education. Concludes that whenever there are brief episodes of normalization, the true nature of the child shows itself. (JS)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
Simerly, Robert G. – 1976
Within the last several years, between 400 and 500 faculty development programs have been instituted in colleges and universities. However, there is no clear agreement on what faculty development programs should be doing. This paper examines the major approaches to faculty development that institutions can use and the role of institutional…
Descriptors: Accountability, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Behavior Development
Wyly, M. Virginia; And Others – 1988
The Nurse-Parent Training Project, developed in cooperation with Children's Hospital of Buffalo (New York), was designed to provide developmental supportive care for premature infants, and to reduce stress while optimizing neurobehavioral development. A program was conducted to train nurses working in neonatal intensive care nurseries, to enable…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Child Development, Hospitalized Children
Simerly, Robert G. – 1975
In today's rapidly changing world faculty members and administrators in higher education must give conscious, deliberate attention to the concept of faculty development. Because there was no reliable data base about faculty development, a research project was undertaken to provide information about how faculty members perceive their own growth and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Development
McLagan, Patricia A. – 1975
The paper proposes that when behavior change is the major target of an adult education program, the designer must consider three factors: (1) the four basic targets for behavior change efforts (behavior goals and plans, basic knowledge and skills needed for successful performance, physical environment, reinforcers of behavior); (2) individual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Change
Rogers, Sally J.; And Others – 1991
Three studies examined proximity and contact behaviors (behaviors generally thought to be indicative of attachment relationships) in young autistic children. The first study examined the behavior of 32 young autistic children and children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) in a "strange situation" paradigm using four…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Child Development
Hatch, J. Amos; Johnson, Lynn G. – 1988
This paper reports findings from a study of social adjustments in the face-to-face interactions of four highly original preschool children, and suggests a framework for guiding the social development of gifted and talented young children. Descriptions of the four students' behavior patterns demonstrate the social adjustments they employed in…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies
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Springhorn, Ron G. – 1977
The paper considers whether precise control over the actions, thoughts, emotions, and desires of individuals is desirable. New technological methods for controlling human behavior enable systematic manipulation of people and promise an even greater degree of manipulation in the near future. Arguments for and against behavior control are presented.…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavioral Sciences
Bar-Tal, Daniel – 1979
Three experiments involving 345 children aged 5-6, 7-8, and 12-13 were performed to investigate the development of children's motives to help. Two experimental paradigms were developed to determine children's motives for helping behavior in a specific behavioral context. In the first paradigm, situations were created in which children had the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Altruism, Behavior Change, Behavior Development
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Hochbaum, Godfrey M. – Journal of Nutrition Education, 1981
Discusses theories, research, and educational aspects relating to nutrition behavior, including psychosocial and cultural factors, nutrition knowledge, motivation in nutrition behavior, nutrition education and the public, education and situational factors, school nutrition education, evaluating nutrition education, and adoption and maintenance of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavioral Sciences, Change Strategies
Clements, Millard – 1975
The politics of the behavioral modification approach to educational evaluation are examined in this position paper. In recent years the science of behavior modification has become an established political doctrine in professional education. Behavioral objectives, behavior change, performance criteria, and competency-based instruction are just a…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Definitions, Educational Assessment
Cairns, Robert B.; Cairns, Beverly D. – 1989
Changes from the expected life course can arise from at least three different reasons in longitudinal work: developmental novelty, errors in diagnosis, and errors in expectation. This longitudinal study examined the social development of 220 fourth graders and 475 seventh graders over a period of 10 years with over 98 percent of the original…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Development