Assessed the relationship between individual facilitation skills and a set of personal variables, including age, race, sex, and years of experience, to determine whether human relations training affects individuals. Subjects were 103 second- and fifth-grade teachers in 13 schools. Results showed that training is effective in increasing…

Techniques for training a severely retarded blind client to exit his living unit during a fire drill used a combination of negative and positive reinforcement. Following a shaping procedure, the client learned to leave his living unit from any internal point through generalization training and subsequent test probes. (Author/CL)

Effects of receptive vs. expressive training of category labels on acquisition of generalized referential labels by six prelinguistic severely mentally retarded children (5-19 years old) were investigated. Data indicated that receptive training resulted in more accurate generalization to novel category members than did expressive training.…

Reports on a study (of 79 Navajo women) that compared the predictiveness of two types of learning experience (schooling and weaving) for pattern continuation skills across varying domains and contexts. Questions the notion that what is learned in particular experiences automatically improves skills in general. (KH)

Examination of training by classroom role-play with flashcards, classroom role-playing with slides, or classroom role playing with slides and in-vivo store training revealed a functional relationship between the combined slide and the in-vivo strategy and correct performance across a range of nontrained probe stores for four severely retarded Ss.…

Three specific skill areas in a training package to teach menstrual care skills to five mild to severely mentally retarded women were task analyzed and taught in a sequential manner. Results indicated that the package was successful; Ss continued to perform the skills up to five months after the study. (Author)

The author presents a model comprised of target behavior, stimulus, e.g., contingency, and instructional process, which may affect generalization with severely handicapped students. The literature relating to each component is summarized, and empirically validated suggestions for implementation are offered. (MC)

The impact of prior learning on new learning is highlighted by the case of Dean, a Year 8 student who developed his own method to find the sum of the interior angles of a polygon without knowing why his method worked. Enriched transcripts and visual displays of the cognitive, social (Dreyfus, Hershkowitz, & Schwarz, 2001) and affective elements…

This 5-month action research project examined effects of a short-term interactive vocabulary instruction on reading comprehension with four intermediate grade students identified as having learning disabilities in reading. Participants read a narrative text and an expository text without vocabulary instruction and then received vocabulary…

A discussion of several types of formal neurons, many of whose functions are modifiable by their own input stimuli. The language of finite automata is used to mathematicize the problem of adaptation sufficiently to remove some ambiguities of Brindley's approach. (Author)

Two studies are reported dealing with the responses of preschool children to adjectives which carry connotations of evaluation, potency, and activity among older children and adults. (Authors)

Spontaneous and model-induced production of a valuational style of inquiry was studied in 128 third-grade children. (Authors)

Study conducted to investigate attention span in relation to various schedules or regimes of reinforcement. (Author/MB)

Analyses indicated that varying the range of test stimuli changes the discriminability of the stimuli within that range, even though the physical differences among these stimuli remain constant. (Author)