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McManis, Donald L.; and others – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Motivation, Negative Reinforcement
Piper, Terrence J. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1970
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Expectation, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Hamilton, Marshall L. – J Genet Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Learning Motivation
Download full textLoveland, Kathryn Kernodle; Olley, J. Gregory – 1977
In order to clarify the conditions under which material rewards have a detrimental effect upon children's later interest in the rewarded task, the effect of a reward for drawing was measured with 24 preschool children ranging in age from 34 to 40 months. The children were grouped as high or low in initial interest on the basis of observation of…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Interests, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes
Jabker, Eugene H.; Halinski, Ronald S. – 1977
A study was conducted to determine the extent to which faculty members' attempts to improve instruction at Illinois State University were rewarded. The data were obtained by three methods: (1) a questionnaire designed to obtain faculty perceptions of rewards; (2) a historical analysis of the salary, promotion, or tenure ratings received annually…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Educational Improvement, Faculty Promotion
Hamblin, Robert L.; Buckholdt, David – 1967
Recognizing that punishment for aggression often is noneffective or inadvertently reinforces the aggressive act, the authors discuss an alternative approach and provide an explanation of the exchange theory of aggression. Three classroom experiments, operated with children chosen as the most severe behavior problems in a local school system, are…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Hamblin, Robert L.; And Others – 1967
A description of the Social Exchange Laboratory's work with autistic children is presented. The laboratory's philosophy of the exchange theory of autism, seen as a set of habitual response patterns maintained and intensified by exchanges which are inadvertantly structured by others in the child's environment, is set forth with characteristics,…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1977
This thirteenth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in understanding the various types and uses of reinforcement techniques and in acquiring skills needed to apply these techniques in their teaching. The terminal objective for the module is…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Strategies, Extinction (Psychology)
Larsen, Lawrence A.; Bricker, William A. – 1968
Designed for both parents and teachers, the handbook presents methods for educating the moderately and severely retarded child. Those methods include measuring progress, rewarding and punishing, ways of using rewards and punishers, ways of giving positive reinforcers and punishers, withholding reinforcers (extinction), letting the child reward…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
