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Peer reviewedVeatch, Jeannette – Young Children, 1974
Discussion of student motivation and participation, emphasizing the teacher's role in managing students' behavior. (ST)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Early Childhood Education, Motivation, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedFlavell, Judith E. – Mental Retardation, 1973
Stereotypies (repetitive movements of any part of the body) and toy play by three severely retarded males (from 8 to 14 years of age) were recorded in a setting featuring a wide array of toys. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedHafner, James L. – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1973
The purpose of the current investigation was to quantify the quality of various verbal items on a college population that was voluntarily involved in remedial training in the basic academic skills. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Conditioning, Measurement, Personality
Residential Short-Term Camping for Children With Behavior Problems: A Behavior Modification Approach
Peer reviewedRawson, Harve E. – Child Welfare, 1973
A short-term camping program promoted significant gains in behavior and in academic adjustment for children with social and school problems. Followup work was found essential to sustain the progress. (ST)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Identification (Psychology), Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedNelson, C. Michael; And Others – Behavior Therapy, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedGalloway, Charles G.; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1972
Although past experience may operate to produce an initial increase in undesired behaviors during behavior modification procedures, the data of the present study demonstrate that these behaviors will decrease if the model is not abandoned at the point when the behavior appears to be getting worse rather than better. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Early Experience
Peer reviewedRachlin, Howard – Psychological Review, 1973
Article reviews evidence on the effects of contrast and matching, that these effects are related, and that both effects are reactions to the same independent variable. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Negative Reinforcement
Peer reviewedAltman, Reuben; And Others – Psychological Reports, 1972
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Educational Research, Handicapped Children, Imitation
Peer reviewedMartin, Richard R.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1972
An experimental conditioning treatment was conducted with two stuttering preschool children. (Author)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Incidence, Preschool Children, Speech Handicaps
Madsen, Clifford K. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Argues that behavior modification represents the use of a series of scientifically verified techniques that could be used to promote more effective learning of both social and academic subject matter. The author maintains that a behavioral approach fails to help the teacher decide why, what, and who is going to learn. (Author/JF)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Discipline Problems
Bozarth, J. D. – Rehabilitation Research and Practice Journal, 1968
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning, Psychotherapy
Peer reviewedLemke, Haru; Mitchell, Robert D. – American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1972
A twelve-year-old profoundly retarded, self-abusive and assaultive child who did not feed himself was motivated to feed himself and modify undesirable responses within eight days. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Food
Peer reviewedTawney, James W.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1973
Identified are misconceptions of behavior modification procedures according to which behavior modification is connected mistakenly with noncontingent reinforcement, partial change of a teacher's behavior, decelerations of inappropriate behaviors only, dependency producing technology, teacher dominated activity, a single type of classroom…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education
Peer reviewedBry, Peter M.; Nawas, M. Mike – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1972
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Shepherd, David C. – J Speech Hearing Res, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Conditioning, Electroencephalography, Electronic Equipment
