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Redish, A. David; Jensen, Steve; Johnson, Adam; Kurth-Nelson, Zeb – Psychological Review, 2007
Because learned associations are quickly renewed following extinction, the extinction process must include processes other than unlearning. However, reinforcement learning models, such as the temporal difference reinforcement learning (TDRL) model, treat extinction as an unlearning of associated value and are thus unable to capture renewal. TDRL…
Descriptors: Rewards, Cues, Behavior Problems, Biochemistry
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Grinspoon, Lester; Singer, Susan B. – Harvard Educational Review, 1973
Article is a literature review, but a literature review with definite policy implications. It concerns the widespread use of amphetamines in the nation's schools to control a syndrome which doctors and medical researchers call "hyperkinetic behavior disorder," or "minimal brain dysfunction," and which teachers and parents know as "hyperactivity".…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Drug Abuse
MacPherson, Evelyn M. – 1972
A brief introduction to various aspects of operant conditioning is presented, followed by a discussion of ethical concerns. Also discussed in this paper are topics such as (1) what is it? (2) motivation, (3) students need motivating, and (4) a new method. The latter part of the paper is concerned with a year long behavior project in an elementary…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Classroom Research
Heaps, Richard A.; Seamons, Terry R. – 1972
This paper provides some practical as well as theoretical uses of group desensitization. It is hoped that the reader will gain some knowledge as to how to apply this technique in a variety of situations as well as with a number of variations. Although some problems of application have been mentioned, the authors intend that the therapist feel a…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Change Agents
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Shoda, Yuichi; Smith, Ronald E. – Behavior Therapy, 2004
This article outlines a conceptualization of personality as a cognitive-affective processing system (CAPS) and explores its implications for understanding disorders and pursuing therapeutic change. The CAPS conception of personality was proposed in 1995 in order to resolve a long-standing paradox in personality and social psychology, namely, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Personality Traits, Learning Processes, Social Psychology
Ferritor, D. E.; And Others – 1971
The effects of behavioral and performance contingencies on classroom behavior and on academic performance were investigated. The subjects, third grade students from an inner city elementary school, were exposed to a series of conditions including baseline, behavior contingencies, performance contingencies, and a mix of behavior and performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Demak, Leonard S. – 1969
This document provides summary descriptions of a dozen ESEA Title III programs using behavior control techniques on various populations of school-age youth, for different objectives. Each program summary gives the title, population served, approximate annual cost, procedures, a brief evaluation, and whom to contact for further information. (EM)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavioral Objectives, Delinquent Behavior