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Feifer, Irwin; And Others – 1972
In its attempts to apply behavior modification principles to teaching job-required behaviors to manpower trainees, the Mobilization for Youth-Experimental Manpower Laboratory (MFY-EML), has mounted a number of reinforcement-based Neighborhood Youth Corps training programs. The nature, magnitude and scheduling of reinforcers, the nature of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Modification, Disadvantaged, Employment
Fo, Walter S. O.; Robinson, Craig – 1972
This paper is a systematic attempt to apply the principles and techniques of behavior modification to process and outcome in group therapy. The framework is derived from learning theory, and is aimed at providing a conceptual model for the understanding and practice of group therapy in which symptom redress is the primary goal. A number of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Group Therapy, Group Unity
Robertson, Jack E. – 1972
A complement to the text, "Your Attitude is Showing," this assignment manual is an attempt to individualize instruction in human relations and attitude development. Composed of study questions and an answer book, the manual contains numbered assignments titled to correspond with topics and projects in the text which allow the student the exercise…
Descriptors: Assignments, Attitudes, Behavior Development, Employment Problems
Deci, Edward L. – 1973
The paper draws together a wide variety of research which relates to the topic of intrinsic motivation; intrinsically motivated activities are defined as those which a person does for no apparent reward except the activity itself or the feelings which result from the activity. Most of this research was not originally reported within the framework…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Individual Psychology
Kosier, Kenneth P. – 1971
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a lecture on behavior modification techniques given to three elementary teaching staffs that were volunteered by their principals. It was expected that the group lecture would result in significant increases of teacher compliments and decreases of teacher reprimands even though the teachers did not request…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavioral Objectives, Change Agents
Ladd, Wayne – 1976
During the early decades of the twentieth century, there was a gradual shift from educational sports as a forum for non-risk individual participation to team and coach-centered endeavors where an emphasis on winning existed. That shift reflected social changes in the United States as American society itself became highly structured and organized…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Athletics, Behavior Development, Competition
Starr, Philip – Rehabilitation Literature, 1978
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cleft Palate
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Novak, Stanley F.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1978
Since there is a growing emphasis on the behavioral and psychological aspects of health and illness in pediatric practice, training programs must expose future primary care provides to behavioral and developmental issues. An interdisciplinary training model developed at Rochester's Department of Pediatrics is described. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Higher Education
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Haynes, C. Rayfield; And Others – Journal of Psychology, 1977
Shows that shifts in children's organizing behaviors occur relatively independently of changes in ability. (RL)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style
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Kujoth, Richard K.; Topetzes, Nick J. – College Student Journal Monograph (Part 2), 1977
Further replication using other test instruments and measured variables is suggested, but the results of two studies appear to support the view that providing rational ideas fosters mental health while providing psychodynamic insight does not. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, College Students, Emotional Adjustment
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Ohler, Frank D. – Journal of School Health, 1976
The author (1) presents data drawn from a fourteen-week program on oral health care involving second-grade students; (2) concludes that such a program is successful in promoting short-term behavioral change; and (3) stresses the need for periodic reinforcement and repetition to assure behavior maintenance over time. (MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Dental Health
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Leigh, Irene W. – Volta Review, 1987
The author provides parents with information and suggestions about ways to alleviate strains placed on the natural attachment (bonding) process when their child has a hearing impairment. Strategies to foster the child's communicative and behavioral development are presented and the roles of parental responsivity, letting go, and fathers are…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Children, Coping
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Clarke, Ann M.; Clarke, Alan D. B. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Offers selective reviews on adult outcomes of severe mental retardation, autism, conduct disorders, mild retardation and adjustment disorders of childhood. Discusses important prospective study of mild retardation. Stresses that adjustment disorders of childhood only rarely continue into adult life; but incidence of these disorders is on the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Autism, Behavior Development
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Dix, Theodore; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Proposes and tests an attributional model of parent social cognition and examines parents'inferences about why everyday child behaviors occur and what consequences these inferences may have for socialization. (HOD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Behavior Development, Child Development
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Anderson, Daniel R.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Decribes age trends in television viewing time and visual attention of children and adults videotaped in their homes for 10-day periods. Shows that the increase in visual attention to television during the preschool years is consistent with the theory that television program comprehensibility is a major determinant of attention in young children.…
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Adults, Age Differences, Attention Span
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