The self-management of thoughts and mental images was used in a series of empirical case studies to influence behavior changes. The target behaviors in the cases reported were smoking, overeating, fingernail biting, thinking self-depreciative thoughts, and responding assertively. Self-monitoring, covert positive reinforcement, covert…

Hypnosis is a state of mind which manifests a high degree of suggestibility. Advertising, political campaigning, and religious contemplation are all areas in which hypotism is employed, usually without knowledge on the part of either the "hypnotist" or the subject. Because of its association with entertainment, magic, manipulation, and…

This manual is designed to assist group leaders in training parents with the child management program, "Parents are Teachers". Activity outlines for each of the 10-week sessions show the teacher how to present parents with various kinds of reinforcement and discipline systems. Hypothetical situations are used to teach parents how they can…

The basic principles of operant and classical conditioning are presented, and their applications for the in-service training of teachers are discussed. Certain classroom behaviors are analyzed and applied to the classic stimulus-response paradigm. Activities are generically classified as positive or negative reinforcers and these reinforcers, in…

The potential for affective learning by college students was measured through a T-group experience that combined a T-group method with a course in family relationships. Investigated were changes in verbal behavior, the experimental group's influence as models, personality and grade point changes as well as the sociometric influence of T-group…

This paper describes a psychological model for influencing social behavior that is based on a biological model. The model gave rise to an idea for a drug abuse program which applied and tested concomitantly in an "action research" drug abuse program with junior and senior high schools in San Bernardino, California. It was postulated that, given a…

Preschool teachers need to acquire more realistic expectations and definitions of their jobs and need to learn how to observe their own behaviors. Members of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory have observed that preschool teachers offer rewards for learning that are extrinsic to the learning process (e.g., rewarding a reading lesson…

Seven procedures are analyzed to discover their effectiveness in changing teachers' priming or reinforcement of peer interactions or verbal behaviors in preschool children. The procedures were applied to 23 teachers at the laboratory preschool of the University of Kansas, and training of two Head Start teachers was done in their home settings. The…

Subjective findings of the Atlanta Project are presented. This project's primary purpose was to test and demonstrate the effectiveness of providing intensive vocational rehabilitation services to federal offenders at two specified states in the correctional process. A total of 484 cases were monitored, 107 of which were assigned to the…

Proceedings of a workshop (Pineville, Louisiana, July 13-14, 1970) on behavior modification programs for deaf-blind children are presented. James Lent discusses the principles of behavior modification and the habilitation of deaf blind children while Pat Aycock utilized case histories to consider shaping behavior of multiply handicapped crib…

A School Adjustment Program (SAP) which began in 1966 is the focus of a paper which describes the program (now serving emotionally disturbed children from ages 5 to 15 in six classrooms) and compares it to the program used by Hewitt. The behavior modification procedures and individualized programing used in the classes are discussed. Research…

In this study, two hypotheses were tested: (1) Self-report data are unrelated to behavior change; (2) Exposure to competent models of open and helpful behavior increases this skill performance in an encounter group. Two encounter groups were conducted with 18 college students who had the incentive to become more open, honest, and helpful. One…

This workbook is designed to be used with the trainer's manual in supervisory training sessions on behavior modification of employees. This is one of four manuals prepared to aid supervisors in training disadvantaged groups using social reinforcement techniques. Related documents are available as VT 018 031-VT 018 035 in this issue. (MF)

The study attempted to modify the on-task and task completion rates of three kindergarten children by altering the contingencies of reinforcement associated with these two work behaviors. During baseline, a fixed number of tokens was provided for task completion. While the remainder of the class remained in this condition, teacher attention was…

Stuttering is explained to be a time and rhythm speech disorder. The overview in outline form on stuttering notes the nature of the disorder, primary and secondary types, incidence, age of onset, stutterer's profile, intelligence, psychological traits, physiological traits, sociological traits, predisposing conditions, precipitating conditions,…