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An Evaluative Review of Social Validation Research Involving Persons with Handicaps.
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Storey, Keith; Horner, Robert H. – Journal of Special Education, 1991
This review of 50 social validation research studies involving persons with handicaps concludes that social validation procedures are an appropriate and important component of applied behavior analysis. Discussed are methodological issues, social importance of effects, social significance of goals, social appropriateness of procedures, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Disabilities, Program Validation
"A Human Ethogram: Its Scientific Acceptability and Importance." A Treatise Assessing Modern Theories of Personality Development and Proposing a New Comprehensive Theory of Behavior and Behavioral Development, key chapters and sections.
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Jesness, Bradley – 1985
Written by a methodological behaviorist, this treatise critiques neo-Hullian, Freudian, Eriksonian, and Piagetian theories and presents an ethological perspective on behavior and personality development. The critique is extended to cover social learning, cognitive-developmental, neo-Freudian, and Skinnerian theories, as well as the ideas of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Case Studies
Child Effects in Studies Using Experimental or Brief Longitudinal Approaches to Socialization.
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Bell, Richard Q.; Chapman, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Reviews results of research related to the control system model of how parents and children regulate each other's behavior. Confirmed early formulations that postulated individual differences in children's assertiveness, activity, and person orientation as explanations for differences in parents' child-rearing techniques. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing
Mass Entertainment and Human Survival: Television's Potential for Prosocial Effects on Adults.
Loye, David – 1975
Psychosocial adaptations are sometimes affected by experiences that are ordinarily considered to be amusements. In 1974, a field study was undertaken by the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and the Future to determine if it is possible to measure the effect of television on adult viewers. A sample of 260 couples, controlled for demographic…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Commercial Television
Impact on Adults of Dramatized Television Programs.
Gorney, Roderic; And Others – 1976
Psychosocial adaptations are sometimes affected by experiences that are ordinarily considered to be amusements. In 1974, a field study was undertaken by the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and the Future to determine if it is possible to measure the effect of television on adult viewers. A sample of 260 couples, controlled for demographic…
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research