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Gamba, Jonas; Goyos, Celso; Petursdottir, Anna Ingeborg – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2015
Recently, there has been a proliferation of research on the functional independence of two of Skinner's (1957) verbal operants, the mand, and the tact. This research has produced highly variable results. In this article, we provide a critical review of the literature on mand-tact independence, a literature that has implications for both theory and…
Descriptors: Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Literature Reviews, Training
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Neuringer, Allen – Behavior Analyst, 2011
The experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) is in trouble. Financial support for basic operant-conditioning research is difficult to obtain; teaching and research positions in colleges and universities are few; and bright undergraduates join other fields for graduate study. One reason for the difficulty is that EAB basic research does not focus…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Research, Financial Support, Scholarship
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Lee, Ronald; Sturmey, Peter; Fields, Lanny – Psychological Record, 2007
Response variability, a fundamental characteristic of behavior, may be in some cases an induced effect of reinforcement schedules. Research on schedule-induced response variability has shown that continuous reinforcement results in less variability than intermittent reinforcement schedules. Studies on the effects of intermittency of reinforcement,…
Descriptors: Investigations, Reinforcement, Research, Responses
Shorkey, Clayton Thomas – 1968
Some 80, white, schizophrenic patients were administered the Taylor Personality Scale of Manifest Anxiety (MAS), the Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI) and were tested on an operant conditioning task. Hypotheses tested were: (1) effectiveness of social reinforcement (verbal approval) on a verbal conditioning task would be enhanced by subjecting…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Psychological Characteristics, Reinforcement
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Cavanagh, Patrick; Davidson, Michael L. – Developmental Psychology, 1977
Results of an experiment with 6-month-old infants showed that response-independent auditory-visual reinforcement can elicit learned responses and that action-consequence learning in infants may consist of a combination of elicitation and conditioning. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Infants, Learning, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement
Phillips, Robert E. – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Group Instruction, Learning Theories
Gruber, Ronald P. – J Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: College Graduates, Color, Discrimination Learning, Generalization
Miller, Adam; Hood, Randolph – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Disadvantaged, Learning Theories
Lanyon, Richard I. – 1970
This study undertook to reconcile the views of cognitive and behavioral learning theorists on the issue whether learning without awareness (LWA) is possible, and if so, the circumstances under which it occurs. In Study One, two reinforcement procedures were compared in a structured verbal conditioning task. Study Two was a replication of Study…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Interviews, Laboratory Experiments
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Redd, William H. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1976
Examines the effects of instructions that an adult experimenter gives, his presence in experimental setting, and child's history with adults on the reinforcement control of children's behavior. (JH)
Descriptors: Cues, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Experimenter Characteristics
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Silverman, Kenneth – Behavior Analyst, 2004
This article describes a research program to develop an operant treatment for cocaine addiction in low-income, treatment-resistant methadone patients. The treatment's central feature is an abstinence reinforcement contingency in which patients earn monetary reinforcement for providing cocaine-free urine samples. Success and failure of this…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Patients, Substance Abuse, Operant Conditioning
Weiner, Adeline E. – J Spec Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Educational Theories, Exceptional Child Education, Literature Reviews
Sueoka, Sarah; And Others – 1974
This case study of a kindergarten boy in the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) suggests that specific operant training in school-relevant behaviors can facilitate classroom adjustment if the training is coordinated with the regular classroom teacher. The subject, considered unmanageable, hyperactive, and aggressive by the staff at his…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Case Studies