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Peer reviewedGluck, John P.; Sackett, Gene P. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Rhesus monkeys were reared in total isolation, in partial isolation, or under normal conditions with access to mothers and peers. Each group was compared on the rate of acquisition of a simple operant response. (GO)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Conditioning, Disadvantaged Environment, Infants
Peer reviewedGlazzard, Margaret; Goetz, Janice L. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Contingency Management, Learning Disabilities, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedMacNamara, Roger – Mental Retardation, 1977
A professional involved in behavior modification with handicapped children cites some of his experiences to point out the dangers of misuse of the system. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children
Krumrine, Herbert W.; Thomas, Margaret – Pointer, 1976
Described is a program in which adolescent institutionalized handicapped girls are rewarded with money for improved academic performance, behavior, and participation. (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Handicapped Children
Elardo, Richard – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Describes the implementation of a token economy as a method of controlling student behavior in an elementary school. Emphasizes student participation and discusses board issues such as teacher resistance to the program and the question of evaluation. (IRT)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Corporal Punishment, Discipline, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHalle, James W.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1984
A series of three experiments was conducted with three severely retarded children to investigate the vocalization-producing potential of two antecedent conditions: adult talk (commonly cited antecedent) and adult silence. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Language Acquisition, Operant Conditioning, Severe Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedThompson, Gary; Folsom, Richard C. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1984
Results indicated no significant differences between conditioning procedures in regard to obtained MRLs (minimum response levels) number of stimulus presentations required to establish MRL (discounting conditioning trials), and number of false-positive responses observed during control trial for 60 premature infants at one or two years of age.…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, High Risk Persons, Infants, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedFrankel, Fred – Mental Retardation, 1976
Presented is research evidence in support of the use of behavior extinction procedures for mentally handicapped persons in residential treatment situations. (IM)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedNey, Philip G. – Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 1973
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Sklar, Mark J.; Rampulla, Joanne – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Blindness, Exceptional Child Research, Multiple Disabilities
Peer reviewedKazdin, Alan E. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedWelsch, William V.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1973
Feedback procedures were used on two different wards at a state hospital for the retarded to increase the number of behavior modification projects completed each day by 22 staff members. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Feedback, Institutions
Peer reviewedParker, Ronald K.; Rugel, Robert P. – Child Development, 1973
Eight- and 9-year-olds (N=56) were studied to determine the degree to which counterconditioning could alter the positive or negative value acquired by a neutral stimulus in a conditioning situation. Dependent measures used to assess the effects of conditioning were found to have no independent effect on subsequent evaluations of the once-neutral…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Elementary School Students, Evaluation, Reinforcement
Peer reviewedFischer, Joel – Child Welfare, 1973
This article describes the basic procedures of the technique of systematic desensitization, and suggests that social welfare practitioners make use of this extensively tested approach to dysfunctional behavior. (ST)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Counseling, Desensitization
Peer reviewedShorkey, Clayton T.; Taylor, John E. – Child Welfare, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Emotional Disturbances, Injuries
