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Peer reviewedAtkinson, Donald R.; And Others – School Counselor, 1972
The results indicate that reinforcement can be effective in increasing the number of questions superior students ask during information seeking interviews. Thus, the use of verbal reinforcement by counselors is an effective means of encouraging high achieving students to seek information relevant to their educational and vocational planning.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Counseling Theories
Hughes, Honore – 1978
Two contingency systems, individual and group, were evaluated for their effects on children's behavior during small group meetings. A group of 48 children, ages 8-14, attended a seven-week residential camp program operated on a token economy system. Ratings of the campers' behavior were made by the counselors on a five-point rating scale at the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Change Strategies
Paul, Waters C.; Caro, Paul W. – 1973
The first year of operation of the Eufaula Adjustment Center, a residential facility of the Alabama Department of Mental Health, is described and evaluated in this report. The Center's approach is based on the concept that certain mental illnesses are the result of having learned inadequate or inappropriate coping skills and behavior rather than…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Contingency Management
Download full textHamblin, Robert L.; Buckholdt, David – 1967
Recognizing that punishment for aggression often is noneffective or inadvertently reinforces the aggressive act, the authors discuss an alternative approach and provide an explanation of the exchange theory of aggression. Three classroom experiments, operated with children chosen as the most severe behavior problems in a local school system, are…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Hamblin, Robert L.; And Others – 1967
A description of the Social Exchange Laboratory's work with autistic children is presented. The laboratory's philosophy of the exchange theory of autism, seen as a set of habitual response patterns maintained and intensified by exchanges which are inadvertantly structured by others in the child's environment, is set forth with characteristics,…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Ferster, C. B. – 1968
The report describes a 3-year project which utilized the techniques of experimental psychology and the principles of operant conditioning to gain in the understanding and treatment of autistic and schizophrenic children. Included are discussions of the autistic child, the project itself, arbitrary and natural reinforcement, the setting and…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Case Studies, Clinical Diagnosis
