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Peer reviewedBellack, Alan S.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
Self-reinforcement through positive or aversive covert imagery was studied in obesity treatment. Subjects were randomly assigned to no-imagery, self-punishment followed by self-reward, and self-reward followed by self-punishment conditions. Neither order nor kind of reinforcement made any difference. Both reinforcement groups were superior to…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Contingency Management, Imagery, Negative Reinforcement
Peer reviewedLarson, Charles C. – Journal of School Psychology, 1976
Describes the extinction of demanding behaviors of a nine-year-old boy by placing responsibility for behavioral reinforcement directly under his own control. The therapist assumed that the behavioral pattern of the paranoid personality is characterized by an overdependence upon environmental reinforcers and therefore used the self-management…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Elementary Education
