This article describes a model for changing teacher behavior in dealing with problem students. The model reflects the incorporation of learning theory techniques (pinpointing behavior, reinforcement, shaping, etc.). A step-by-step account of how a psychologist deals with a teacher concerned about a boy's cursing is given. The teacher is encouraged…

A single-case study is presented to demonstrate the utility of the simultaneous treatment design to modify the behavior of a first-grade male. One teacher and her aide recorded data and administred the program. (Author)

This study examined the effects of individual and interdependent reinforcement contingencies on two social behaviors (talking out and out-of-seat behavior) during English and Mathematics classes. Under the individual contingency a student was individually reinforced for his own lack of bad behaviors by free time; under the interdependent…

Both interventions produced dramatic and comparable increases in positive social behavior in training sessions; however, post-treatment responding was not observed for either intervention during generalization assessment. (Author/DLS)

A study involving 7 multiply handicapped students (6-13 years old) was conducted to shape appropriate classroom social behaviors and to maintain them with little social approval, to examine what effects reprimands had on student behavior, and to see if combination of reprimands and praise could result in good classroom behavior when reprimands…

Two groups of six 3-month-old infants participated in a study to investigate the effect of social stimulation on infants' vocalizations. (MS)

Three behavioral techniques--relaxation, satiation, and combined relaxation/satiation--were compared to determine relative effectiveness in reducing cigarette smoking behavior in 53 volunteer smokers. Results indicate all three approaches were effective initially but only combined relaxation/satiation effectively maintained a significant reduction…

Prediction was not supported that responses followed by positive or negative social consequences would immediately be repeated or changed, respectively. (Author/MB)

The scope of behavior modification may be expanded by the interaction between the modification of social and academic behaviors, manipulation of antecedent conditions in order to evoke reinforceable responses, use of controlling variables on a school-systemwide basis, and use of standardized tests as an additional dependent measure. Portions…

The classroom teacher should be proficient in the use of the operant conditioning principles of positive reinforcement and extinction. An eight-step outline of one approach to modifying classroom behavior uses and builds on these principles. People have been afraid to use scientific knowledge of human behavior because of their fear of being…

Two experiments were performed in the naturalistic setting of a preschool classroom in order to assess the effects on children's social behavior of nonevaluative teacher attention to the children's cooperative or aggressive speech. (Author/JMB)

To determine if the deficits in social behavior of retarded persons might be, in part, due to the failure of the environment to maintain that behavior. Inappropriate behavior of 18 institutionalized 12- to 20-year-olds was ignored, and appropriate social behavior was rewarded. (Author/CL)

This paper examines the functions of challenging behavior in individuals with mental retardation, methods for determining the function of a particular behavior, strategies for implementing initial communicative functions that compete with challenging behavior, and procedures that specifically address attention-motivated and…

For teachers of mildly handicapped children, an intervention strategy is presented which modifies academic and social behaviors in three stages: 1) modification of instruction techniques, 2) reinforcement of academic tasks, and 3) modification of social behaviors. (Author/JYC)