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Peer reviewedJan, James E.; And Others – Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 1983
The nature of eye-pressing as a visual stimulation mannerism in children with severely impaired eyesight is examined, and a possible physiological explanation (that self-stimulation occurs when the demand of the brain for meaningful visual information is not met) is offered. (CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Stimulation, Visual Impairments, Visual Stimuli
Peer reviewedRice, James M.; Lloyd, Margaret E. – Exceptional Children, 1982
Effectiveness of reinforcing an alternative response combined with extinction was demonstrated in two mentally retarded children who exhibited high-rate hand stereoptics. (CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Extinction (Psychology), Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedGoodall, Elizabeth; Corbett, J. – Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 1982
The reinforcing properties of four sensory stimuli (continuous and flashing light, vibration, and sound), which were under the subject's control, were examined and the effect on stereotyped behavior of 24 severely retarded and autistic children were observed. Findings were interpreted to support the self-stimulation theory of stereotypy despite…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Autism, Behavior Patterns, Severe Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedThomas, Margaret Hanratty – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Studied male students who viewed an aggressive television program or a neutral one. Half of the students were then angered by a confederate. Results indicated angered men who had seen the aggressive film were most aggressive and exhibited the lowest average pulse rates both before and after shock delivery. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Aggression, Arousal Patterns, Behavior Patterns, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Frankel, Fred – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Children, Exceptional Child Research
