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Peer reviewedGresham, Frank M. – Journal of Special Education, 1979
Two punishment procedures were compared to determine their effectiveness in reducing rates of noncompliance in a class of 11 educable mentally retarded elementary school students. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Download full textBecker, Wesley C.; And Others – 1969
Classroom management and what teachers can do to make it possible for children to behave better, which permits learning to occur, are the subjects of this handbook. The authors hypothesize that the first step toward better classroom management is a teacher's recognition that how children behave is largely determined by the teacher's behavior. When…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Guides
Peer reviewedBillingsley, Felix F.; Smelser, Sandra J. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Emotional Disturbances
Joachim, Ron; McPherson, Lynne – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Children
Hill, John P., Ed. – 1967
Ten schizophrenic and autistic children who exhibited self destructive, tantrum, echolalic, and self stimulatory behaviors were treated by reinforcement therapy. Reinforcement withdrawal, in the form of interpersonal isolation contingent upon self-destruction, and electrical shocks served to extinguish these behaviors in some children.…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances
Sibley, Sally A.; And Others – 1967
The goal of the investigation was to eliminate the disruptive, resistant and assaultive behaviors and increase the appropriate peer interaction of an economically disadvantaged kindergarten white boy. The treatment program involved presentation of adult (teacher) attention contingent upon desirable classroom behavior, withholding of attention…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
L'ABATE, LUCIANO; WHITAKER, DANIEL L. – 1967
PAPERS OR STUDIES CONCERNED WITH THE APPLICATION OF BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION PRINCIPLES TO CHILDREN AND RETARDATES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. AUTHORS ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY. A SHORT PARAGRAPH DESCRIBES THE GENERAL NATURE OF EACH STUDY CITED, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES ARE GIVEN. THERE ARE 130 ENTRIES IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY. (MS)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
Hamblin, 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
