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Peer reviewedThurman, S. Kenneth – Education, 1976
The article suggests that retarded behavior is maintained by certain events in the environment and their relationship to an individual's behavior. Maintenance of these behaviors is attributed to positive reinforcement, avoidance behavior, and contingency schedules. Several examples of the maintenance effects of each of these paradigms are given.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Conditioning, Contingency Management
Walen, Sue; And Others – Probe, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Contingency Management, Cues, Elementary School Students
Gaylord-Ross, Robert J. – 1979
Four treatment procedures were evaluated for effectiveness in reducing self injurious behavior (SIB) of 22 severely handicapped students. Treatment procedures included contingent restraint, reinforcement withdrawal, differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior, and ommission training (rewarding the S for not emitting the SIB response).…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedKennedy, Craig H.; Meyer, Kim A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1996
A study of the relationship between presence or absence of sleep deprivation, allergy symptoms, and the rate and function of problem behavior in three adolescents with moderate to profound mental retardation found that problem behavior was negatively reinforced by escape from instruction, and both allergy symptoms and sleep deprivation influenced…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Allergy, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
