The effect of edited videotapes combining self-modeling stimuli with cartoon reinforcements on the tantrum behavior of a seven-year-old schizophrenic retarded girl was evaluated. Results demonstrated a correlation between the videotape intervention and substantial reduction of tantrum behaviors along with an increase in task persistence. (CL)

Describes a procedure for program evaluation of a special education day school. The procedure enables a program evaluator to: (1) identify priority evaluation information needs of a school staff, (2) involve those persons in evaluation design and implementation, and (3) determine the utility of the evaluation for program decision-making purposes.…

The results suggest that cognitive training specifically designed to promote generalization to classroom tasks can improve the classroom behavior and academic achievement of hyperactive children. (Author)

The treatment combined extinction of the injurious behavior and reinforcement of alternative behavior and was successful in the controlled hospital environment. However, an attempt to teach the parents to continue the treatment at home failed. Journal Availability: J. B. Lippincott Co., East Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA 19105 (Author/DLS)

The effects of the Behavior Analysis Model of Follow Through as to the percent of Native Americans in instructional roles were examined. Large percentage increases were found in the use of Native Americans in the classroom as a function of the adoption of the Behavior Analysis Model of Follow Through. (Author)

Examines, in the Canadian population, what real change has occurred in regard to other forms of households in place of the conventional nuclear-family household. Comparison of 1971 with 1976 information shows considerable continuity but also substantial increases in small and non-couple households during this five-year interval. (Author/BEF)

Examines socioeconomic events surrounding major improvements in telephone service in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Focuses on five towns at different stages of telecommunications development and relates the increased technology to air travel, use of the mail, changes in fur sales, changes in crime levels, and restructuring of communications…

Eighty-four adolescents and their parents were surveyed on the extent to which adolescents attempt to influence their parents' everyday behaviors. Attempted influence correlated positively with adolescent autonomy need and negatively with father's dominance need. Variables of sex, family structure and authority style, and influenced behaviors are…

Two hundred gifted and talented secondary students received an intensive exposure to a diverse array of learning and thinking experiences (indirect training) while 68 graduate students received intensive training in creative problem solving with emphasis on right cerebral hemisphere functions (direct training). (CL)

Author states that learning is behavior modification and discusses several principles of adult education and training which he has found useful in adult training programs. These include planning, organizing, a variety of activities and methods, involvement of the learner, and followup. (MF)

Manual hand and arm guidance as a form of overcorrection was used in a punishment paradigm to suppress the frequency of serious self-injurious behavior in two profoundly retarded young adults with long histories of such behavior. (SBH)

This study compared the effectiveness of systematic desensitization and the directed experience hypnotic technique in reducing self-reported test anxiety and increasing the academic performance of test-anxious undergraduates (N=36). The results are discussed as evidence for systematic desensitization as the more effective treatment in reducing…

A severely retarded, institutionalized, 12-year-old female received reinforcement on an adjusted DRO schedule (differential reinforcement for behavior other than self destruction) until a fairly stable response (no scratching or headbanging) was shown. (Author)