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Sieck, William A.; McFall, Richard M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
This laboratory study of self-monitoring effects examined hypotheses that the direction of reactive effects is a function of the perceived value of the target behavior and that neither the behavior's value nor self-monitoring alone is sufficient to produce significant effects but that both are necessary. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Contingency Management, Research Projects
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Broughton, Sam F.; Lahey, Benjamin B. – Journal of School Psychology, 1978
The relative effects of positive reinforcement, response cost, and the two contingencies combined when used as contingencies for correct academic responses were compared on the dependent measures of accuracy of academic performance and level of on-task behavior. All three contingency systems increased academic performance and on-task behavior.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Observation
Seybert, Jeffrey A.; And Others – 1978
The effects of different schedules of noncontingent reward on subsequent learning in children were investigated. In the first phase of the experiment subjects performed a block-design matching task and received one of three schedules of noncontingent reward, i.e., continuous reward (Group CRF), random reward on 50% of the trials (Group 50R), or no…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Children, Contingency Management
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Gulanick, Nancy; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Underweight subjects were assigned to either a self-reinforcement condition, a self-punishment condition, or to a discussion/reflection control condition. The subjects received one treatment session per week over a five-week period. After treatment, the self-reinforcement groups gained significantly more pounds (kilograms) than either of the other…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Body Weight, Change Strategies