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Direct linkVaz, Petula C. M.; Volkert, Valerie M.; Piazza, Cathleen C. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
We examined the effects of a negative reinforcement-based treatment on the self-feeding of 1 child with food selectivity by type and texture. Self-feeding increased when the child could choose to either self-feed 1 bite of a target food or be fed 1 bite of the target food and 5 bites of another food. Possible mechanisms that underlie the…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement, Children, Behavior Modification
Peer reviewedGreene, 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
Peer reviewedTough, 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
Peer reviewedMartin, Richard; Berndt, Lois A. – Exceptional Children, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Negative Reinforcement, Reinforcement
Peer reviewedWilliams, J. David; Martin, Randall B. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Electrical Stimuli, Exceptional Child Research, Negative Reinforcement
Peer reviewedMerbaum, Michael – Behavior Therapy, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Marshall, Robert C. – J Speech Hearing Disor, 1970
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Conditioning, Exceptional Child Research, Negative Reinforcement
Smeets, Paul M. – Training School Bulletin, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedMartin, Richard; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1975
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Negative Reinforcement
JENSEN, PAUL J. – 1966
THE STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THERE ARE SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER LATENCY AND RESPONSE DURATIONS IN CHILDREN'S SPEECH AS A RESULT OF VERBAL PUNISHMENT COMPARED TO REWARD, AND WHETHER THE EFFECTS ARE GREATER IN YOUNGER OR OLDER CHILDREN AND IN BOYS OR GIRLS. SUBJECTS WERE 160 BOYS AND GIRLS FROM THIRD AND SIXTH GRADES. DURING A…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Negative Reinforcement, Positive Reinforcement
McManis, Donald L.; and others – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Motivation, Negative Reinforcement
Walker, Hill M.; Buckley, Nancy K. – 1970
The document is the fifth in a six part research report on the assessment and treatment of deviant behavior in children. In attempting to reprogram a social environment so as to maintain behaviors modified in an experimental setting, researchers felt that it was essential that the reprograming take into account the teacher's role as a controlling…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Piper, Terrence J. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1970
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Expectation, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Insalaco, Carl; Massey, Phillip S. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedSimpson, Richard L.; Swenson, Carl R. – Behavioral Disorders, 1980
The results showed that in each setting, overcorrection procedures were associated with statistically significant differences in the target behaviors. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Exceptional Child Research
