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Masters, John C.; Binger, Craig G. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1978
Reports on an initial inquiry into children's compliant response inhibition, their tendencies to accomplish and maintain the inhibition of an attractive activity upon the request of an adult socialization agent. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Inhibition, Preschool Children

Wen, Shih-Sung – Psychology in the Schools, 1974
Two improvement strategies designed to modify children's impulsive tempos were developed and transformed into task exercises. Results indicated that enriching redundancy and enlarging variations in cognitive processes enable the impulsive child to assimilate information and therefore deal more effectively with reality. (Author/PC)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Children, Elementary Education

Dermer, Jerry D. – Human Relations, 1974
In an investigation of the interactive effects of environmental uncertainty and self-control on the acceptance of responsibility for and satisfaction with performance, it was found that the situational factors indentified significant differences and interactions but the locus of control factor did not. Increasing the amount of environmental…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Environmental Influences, Job Satisfaction

Santrock, John W.; Ross, Mary – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Descriptors: Behavior, Childhood Attitudes, Peer Groups, Preschool Children
Van Duyne, H. John – 1967
The purpose of the study was (1) to examine the results from a two-association perceptual-motor task as to their implications for Luria's theory about the development of verbal control of non-verbal behavior; (2) to explore the effects of various learning experiences upon this development. The sample consisted of 20 randomly selected children in…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children

Connis, Richard T. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1979
During self-recording and picture cue training, the Ss completed an increased proportion of independent task changes, and this behavior was maintained for more than ten weeks following removal of the training procedures. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Job Skills, Mental Retardation
Shapiro, Edward S.; Klein, Roger D. – 1978
The study examined the effectiveness of teaching self-management of classroom on-task behavior to four mentally retarded/emotionally disturbed children (6-9 years old). Also explored were the effects of procedures on disruptive behavior, task performance, and task accuracy. Following baseline, a standard token program was instituted. After…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Children, Emotional Disturbances
Sola, Janet; Phye, Gary D. – 1975
Forty reflective and 40 impulsive children were assigned to one of four treatment conditions. The learning task employed a list of 25 familiar objects, five instances from each of five categories. The four treatments were Randomized-No Instructions, Randomized-Instructed, Blocked-No Instructions, and Blocked-Instructed. Results support earlier…
Descriptors: Behavior, Children, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary School Students

Ryckman, Richard M.; Rodda, William C. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Individual Characteristics

Santrock, John W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
The affective components of a situation were powerful determinants of the facilitative self-control of children in the situation. Both the ongoing affective tone of the child's cognition during task performance, which replicated the results of Masters and Santrock (1976), and the ecological setting were linked to the continued maintenance of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
Hanawalt, David A.; Mithaug, Dennis E. – AAESPH Review, 1977
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Descriptors: Aggression, Contingency Management, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation

Epstein, Michael H.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
The study compared the performance of severe and mild learning disabled children to normal children on a problem-solving task. The three types of children were assessed on the Matching Familiar Figures task. Results indicated that on the MFF, LD children, as a group, were more impulsive than normal children. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Exceptional Persons, Learning Disabilities, Problem Solving
Kaplan, Marvin L.; Mandel, Steven – Child Develop, 1969
Paper presented in part to the Society for Research in Child Development (New York, March 1967).
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Classification, Goal Orientation, Lower Class Students
Patterson, Charlotte J.; Mischel, Walter – 1976
This study assesses the effects of three kinds of verbal plans, temptation-inhibiting plans, reward-oriented plans, and task-facilitating plans, on children's resistance to temptation. Each plan was studied in an elaborated and an unelaborated form. Subjects were 70 four-year olds, 35 boys and 35 girls. The major piece of apparatus employed was a…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Discipline, Individual Power

Chandler, Theodore A.; Dinero, Thomas E. – 1977
Rotter's social learning theory was used as a basis for studying the effects of locus of control on the frequency of the responses of undesirable behaviors. Subjects, 12 fifth graders who had operant levels higher than desirable were monitored by either themselves, a peer, or by no agent for a period of eight weeks. Classes of behaviors…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Individual Psychology, Locus of Control
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