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Montgomery, Jacqueline; McBurney, Raymond D. – 1970
Described is an Operant Conditioning-Token Economy Program, teaching patients to be responsible for their own behavior, to make choices, and to be motivated to change. The program was instigated with mentally ill patients in a state hospital and was later used with institutionalized mentally handicapped groups. After two years, only four of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Birch, Jeremy – Interface Journal, 1975
Describes the Dorm 5 experiment at Windham College, Putney, Vermont, designed to create a living environment to assure individual rights and intellectual values through positive reinforcement techniques following operant conditioning. Problems of vandalism and noise were solved as physical space was utilized to meet student needs for social and…
Descriptors: College Students, Discipline Policy, Dormitories, Experimental Programs
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Luckey, Robert E.; Musick, James K. – Mental Retardation, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Mazzullo, Mariann C.; Greenberg, Judy I. – 1975
A program for modifying classroom behavior of emotionally disturbed and other children (in grades 3 through 7) based on modeling is described, and specific behaviors and evaluation items for the program are provided along with their rationale. Research is reviewed in Part I and topics are covered, such as: the three effects of modeling…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Egner, Ann – 1974
Presented are three examples of the use of the behavior model to provide special education within regular high school classrooms. The first example describes a math teacher's use of minimum objectives and free-time reinforcement in individual contingency and team contingency situations to motivate students to complete assignments. It is explained…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities
Ayllon, T.; Barnes, Jarvis – 1970
Outlined are plans for a 9-month elementary school-wide program of token reinforcement for the trainable mentally retarded (TMR), which is said to allow for later additional components. Program focus is to be application of reinforcement to TMR academic work. All children will take the Metropolitan Readiness Test in pretest and posttest design for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Educational Programs, Elementary Education