These experiments are addressed specifically to the question of whether transituational transfer of immunizing and therapeutic effects will occur when these procedures involve responses and settings which are very different from those used in final testing. (Author/RK)

The use of operant procedures was extended to decrease immediate echolalia and increase appropriate responding to questions of a 21-year-old autistic man. Multiple baseline designs demonstrated that echolalia was rapidly replaced with correct stimulus-specific responses. A variety of generalized improvements were observed in verbal responses to…

Examining cognitive changes in alcoholics in treatment and nonalcoholics after alcohol cue exposure. Alcoholics responded to alcohol cues with reports of increased physical symptoms, decreased confidence about coping with future temptation, and increased guilt. Findings suggest that alcoholics in high-risk relapse situations experience an increase…

The present case study describes a toilet training program planned, developed, and implemented within a sheltered workshop. The client was a severely retarded woman for whom incontinence had been a life-long problem. The ease with which the program was carried out recommends its use with similar client problems. (Author)

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Examines the effects of instructions that an adult experimenter gives, his presence in experimental setting, and child's history with adults on the reinforcement control of children's behavior. (JH)

The article suggests that retarded behavior is maintained by certain events in the environment and their relationship to an individual's behavior. Maintenance of these behaviors is attributed to positive reinforcement, avoidance behavior, and contingency schedules. Several examples of the maintenance effects of each of these paradigms are given.…

Discussion about teaching to psychology students the Watson and Rayner study in 1920 on fear of rats. (ND)

The development of the autoinstructional method of teaching is reviewed, including the underlying psychological principles. Various types of programs are described along with methods for writing them. (LBH)

This article describes a concentrated program of desensitization used to treat flight phobia. A case history illustrates the use of expanded emotive imagery, stimulus breakdown and techniques of covert positive reinforcement. (SJL)

Thumbsucking of a girl aged 2 years and 9 months was recorded by the parents during three 10-minute reading baselines. In Study 1, thumbsucking was punished by contingent termination and resumption of reading. In Study ii, positive reinforcement was provided for other (non-thumbsucking) behavior. The results imply that parents can effectively…

In two experiments involving a two-choice marble dropping game children responded more to social control than to the magnitude of the reward. (ST)

Behavior modification techniques were employed for 20 weeks with six profoundly retarded children (aged between 9 and 13 years) to improve play habits and daily living skills. (DB)

This excerpt from a report (See RIE EA 005 433) alerts school administrators and officials to the means for effecting economies in existing and future school buildings and instructs them in criteria for assessing proposed heating/cooling/lighting and other energy consuming systems. (Author/MLF)