NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Aversive Tickling: A Simple Conditioning Technique
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Greene, Robert J.; Hoats, David L. – Behavior Therapy, 1971
Aversive tickling was successfully used with two blind, retarded, adolescent girls as a punishment procedure to reduce frequency of self-destructive head banging in one case and a variety of attention-getting behaviors in the other. (Author/KW)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Exceptional Child Research, Multiple Disabilities
Modification of Enuretic Behavior by Punishment: A New Use for an Old Device
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Tough, J. H.; And Others – Behavior Therapy, 1971
A cold bath was used as the aversive consequence in the therapeutic modification of nocturnal enuresis in two male siblings (one multiply handicapped, one normal). (KW)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Multiple Disabilities, Negative Reinforcement
The Modification of Self-Destructive Behavior by a Mother-Therapist Using Aversive Stimulation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Merbaum, Michael – Behavior Therapy, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
The Effect of Response Cost and Aversive Stimulation in Suppressing Punished and Nonpunished Speech Disfluencies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Kazdin, Alan E. – Behavior Therapy, 1973
The effect of response cost (withdrawal of tokens), aversive sound stimulation (contingent presentation of loud noise), informative feedback (contingent presentation of neutral stimulus), and no treatment were compared in suppressing disfluent speech in 40 educable mentally retarded clients (median age 22 years). (Author)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Negative Reinforcement