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Peer reviewedHamilton, Scott B.; Bornstein, Philip H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Undergraduate students, (N=28), participating in a speech anxiety treatment program, served as subjects in a study designed to evaluate procedures for improbing the accuracy of self-recording. Self-monitored speeches were unobtrusively recorded to enable comparisons between the number of disfluencies that were self-recorded and the number actually…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling Services, Research Projects, Self Control
Peer reviewedTharp, Roland G.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
Discusses the effectiveness in four case studies of group instruction (pretraining) in the methods and principles of self-modification as an economical and beneficial offering for individuals suffering emotional as well as overt behavioral problems. (Author/PC)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Development
Peer reviewedMcGaghie, William C.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
Students (N=49) in an undergraduate educational psychology course designed and conducted behavioral self-modification projects. Correlation and regression analyses suggested weak but significant relationships between self-modification outcomes and a linear combination of dogmatism, sex, and mathematical aptitude variables. The effects of demand…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation
Effects of Information Feedback and Self-Administered Consequences on Self-Monitoring Study Behavior
Peer reviewedRichards, C. Steven; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
The hypotheses tested among college students (N=87) concerned about study habits were: (a) self-monitoring changes study behavior; (b) information feedback accounts for some of this change; and (c) this change can be enhanced by manipulating the quantity and quality of information feedback and self-administered consequences associated with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, College Students, Feedback
Curran, James P.; Kelly, Ann H. – Journal of Counsulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
The primary purpose of this study was to compare the relative effectiveness of a self-control program that emphasized modification of external environmental-eliciting cues for eating behavior with an induced affect program that was aimed at decreasing eating behavior as a response to emotional states. Results are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Eating Habits
Riggs, Ronald C.; And Others – 1978
The incidence and extent of irrational beliefs in the obese were investigated as well as subsequent changes in such beliefs as a result of participation in a self-monitored weight control program. Subjects were 53 females who were a minimum of 10 pounds and an average of 32 pounds overweight. The obese sample was administered the Irrational…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Beliefs, Body Weight, College Students
Download full textOpdahl, Chris A. – 1976
Research investigating the performance of students enrolled in courses taught by a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) has tended to support the claim that PSI is a superior teaching method. The present research study isolated the self-pacing aspect of PSI courses and attempted to teach 13 academically deficient first year college students…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Contingency Management
