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Ward-Horner, John; Sturmey, Peter – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2010
A component analysis is a systematic assessment of 2 or more independent variables or components that comprise a treatment package. Component analyses are important for the analysis of behavior; however, previous research provides only cursory descriptions of the topic. Therefore, in this review the definition of "component analysis" is discussed,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Behavioral Science Research, Evaluation, Behavior Modification
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Marvul, John N. – Urban Education, 2012
To assess whether a 5-month program involving attendance monitoring, sports participation, and a moral character class would reduce absenteeism, 40 students in a small transitional high school were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups and assessed pre- and postintervention on educational expectations, attitude toward education, and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Predictor Variables, Academic Aspiration
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Kashdan, Todd B.; Breen, William E. – Behavior Therapy, 2008
The purpose of the present study was to examine social anxiety as a predictor of positive emotions using a short-term prospective design. We examined whether the effects of social anxiety on positive emotions are moderated by tendencies to openly express or suppress emotions. Over the course of a 3-month interval, people with excessive social…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Social Psychology, Emotional Problems
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Neumann, David L. – Learning and Motivation, 2007
The renewal of extinguished conditioned behaviour appears to reflect context-dependent learning. The present research used a conditioned suppression task with humans to examine whether instructions concerning the context could influence renewal. Pairings of a conditional stimulus (CS) and unconditional stimulus (US) were made in one context,…
Descriptors: Cues, Conditioning, Experiments, Context Effect
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Carbone, Vincent J.; Morgenstern, Barry; Zecchin-Tirri, Gina; Kolberg, Laura – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2007
The principle of motivation has resurfaced as an independent variable in the field of behavior analysis over the past 20 years. The increased interest is the result of the refinements of the concept of the motivating operation and its application to the learning needs of persons with developmental disabilities. Notwithstanding the increased…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Autism, Developmental Disabilities, Predictor Variables
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Carr, Edward G.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1980
The study sought to identify some of the variables controlling the severely aggressive behavior of two severely retarded children (ages 9 and 14). Experiments conducted under various conditions showed that, while aggressive behaviors sometimes serve as an escape function, the behaviors can be terminated through reduction of the causative situation…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Children
Fanning, Fred; Newman, Isadore – 1974
Based on the assumption that inferential statistics can make the operant conditioner more sensitive to possible significant relationships, regressions models were developed to test the statistical significance between slopes and Y intercepts of the experimental and control group subjects. These results were then compared to the traditional operant…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Theories