In a trade encompassing all others in construction, installation foremen for heating/air conditioning firms spend a varied day (repairing a water heater, overseeing installation crews). Decision-makers who must think while using their hands, they rely heavily on preparation in math, mechanical drawing, blueprint reading, physics, and electicity.…

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)

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)

Designed to study implosive therapy with groups, this use of a behavioristic technique, which reduces unadaptive anxiety by emphasizing the presentation of the highly anxiety-evoking stimulus until the stimulus is no longer able to evoke anxiety, failed to produce a significant difference between control and therapy groups. (Author/KM)

Research report of studies on state-dependent learning. Studies with animals indicate that conditioned learning responses formed by non-drugged animals do not transfer to the drug state and vice versa. Authors suggest that state-dependent learning may play casual role in drug abuse. Tested drug list included. (LK)

The article describes a simple technique whereby teachers can deal effectively with a type of behavior problem in a manner not requiring an inordinate amount of apparatus or treatment. (Author)

Critique of Crothers and Suppes' Experiments in Second Language Learning,'' New York: Academic Press, 1967. Revised version of lecture presented to the Applied Linguistics section of the Modern Language Association, New York, New York, December 1970. (RS)

Presents twelve reasons why educators should be wary of behavior modification. (JF)

Answers criticisms of and questions about behavior modification. (JF)