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Dennison, Darwin – J Sch Health, 1970
Discusses teaching strategy which included arrangement of conditions and contingencies ofreinforcement to motivate students to learn. Identifies student reinforcers and systematically controls reinforcement. Suggests controlled experimentation to compare effectiveness of techniques with other methods of motivation. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Sciences, Classroom Techniques, Health Education
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Mosley, James L. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Motivation, Performance Factors
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Schubert, Josef – Psychological Reports, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Conditioning, Intelligence
Miller, Adam; Hood, Randolph – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Disadvantaged, Learning Theories
Hurt, Michael L.; Etaugh, Claire Falk – J Abnorm Psychol, 1969
Reprints from: Claire Falk Etaugh, Department of Psychology, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois 61606.
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Mental Disorders, Patients, Psycholinguistics
Hopper, Allen E.; and others – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Hostility, Responses
Ahammer, Inge M.; Goulet, L. R. – Child Develop, 1969
Based on an MA thesis (Ahammer) submitted to West Virginia University.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Reinforcement
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Jones, James Marc – Journal of Research in Personality, 1976
Descriptors: Charts, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Data Analysis
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Gupta, B. S. – British Journal of Psychology, 1976
The present investigation was designed to examine the relationship, if any, between extraversion and modes of reinforcement (reward or punishment) in verbal operant conditioning (VOC). (Author)
Descriptors: Charts, Locus of Control, Psychological Studies, Reinforcement
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Palmer, David C. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2006
The discrimination of the onset of joint control is an important interpretive tool in explaining matching behavior and other complex phenomena, but the difficulty of getting experimental control of all relevant variables stands in the way of a definitive experiment. The studies in the present issue of "The Analysis of Verbal Behavior" illustrate…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Research Methodology, Protocol Analysis
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Dixon, Mark R.; Small, Stacey L.; Rosales, Rocio – Behavior Analyst, 2007
The present paper comments on and extends the citation analysis of verbal operant publications based on Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" (1957) by Dymond, O'Hora, Whelan, and O'Donovan (2006). Variations in population parameters were evaluated for only those studies that Dymond et al. categorized as empirical. Preliminary results indicate that the…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Citation Analysis, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Meta Analysis
Kelley, M. E.; Shillingsburg, M.A.; Castro, M. J.; Addison, L. R.; LaRue, R. H., Jr. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2007
The conceptual basis for many effective language-training programs are based on Skinner's (1957) analysis of verbal behavior. Skinner described several elementary verbal operants including mands, tacts, intraverbals, and echoics. According to Skinner, responses that are the same topography may actually be functionally independent. Previous…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Verbal Stimuli, Generalization, Autism
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Caulfield, Joseph B.; Martin, Randall B. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
The present study explored a method of altering the reinforcing properties of the verbal event good in chronic, process, nonparanoid schizophrenics. When good was repeatedly paired with the termination of censure in the reaction time task, it became an effective reinforcer on a subsequent verbal conditioning task. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Negative Reinforcement, Patients, Punishment
Kopp,James; Lane, Harlan – 1968
Reasoning from recent psycholinguistic research, it was predicted that discrimination between two monochromatic stimuli would be poorer when they belong to the same color category, better when they belong to different color categories in the language of the observer. Accordingly, it was predicted that hue discrimination functions vary…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, English
Blasdel, Joan – 1968
This study used reinforcement principles to investigate some procedures for helping a 4-year-old Mexican-American girl establish peer contact in a Head Start class. Although Diane was healthy and intelligent, she had a low rate of attendance at school and spent most of her time there in isolation. The first procedure employed in the study was the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Interaction, Peer Relationship, Prompting
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