Can the laws of learning be applied in the classroom? The issue is whether control over the stimulus affords management-control over the learning processes within the student. The S-R (stimulus-response) position in psychology, most notably associated with Skinner, tends to accept and assert the affirmative. However, accumulated experience with…

Three studies, using handicapped children, investigated: effects of three different reinforcement contingencies (positive reinforcement, removal of positive reinforcement, and combination of positive reinforcement and removal of positive reinforcement) on a steady-state discrimination task; effect of a conditioned emotional response procedure on a…

THIS STUDY FOCUSED ON THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF HOW THE TOTAL EFFECT OF A MULTIDIMENSIONAL STIMULUS IS COMPOUNDED FROM THE SIMPLE EFFECT OF ITS SEPARATE COMPONENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF STIMULUS GENERALIZATION. FROM A THEORETICAL LEVEL, THE PROBLEM WAS STUDIED IN TERMS OF THE GEOMETRY OF MINKOWSKI. AN EXPERIMENT WAS CARRIED OUT WITH 20 SUBJECTS WHO WERE…

The results of this study suggested that size change may contribute to the forgetting of events occurring late in development, but that neurological immaturity may underly the forgetting of earlier events. (Editor/RK)

Three experiments examined predictions generated by incorporating a common-elements account of stimulus generalization within the Rescoral-Wagner model of conditioning. (Editor)

The ability of aversive conditioning and contingency management to control smoking was compared. Although contingency management was more effective in the short run, at a six-month follow-up treatment effects were no longer evident. (SE)

The techniques of behavior modification are of potentially great value in the schools. (Author)

The article describes a program in which paraprofessionals taught behavior modification contingency management techniques to parents of developmentally disabled children who lived beyond the range of the community residential facility. (DLS)

Because there are more schools than any other type of public building, schools are architectural bellwethers, the first reflection of shifts in national priorities. In this article architectural trends in educational institutions are discussed in relation to energy conservation. Examples are offered of schools which utilize solar energy.…

Examined was the use of Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (use of a moving toy animal to reinforce head turning to sound) in measuring hearing thresholds of 28 institutionalized profoundly retarded persons (9-28 years old). (CL)

Language laboratory use has traditionally been limited to structural and phonetic exercises. This article discusses ways to tap more effectively the laboratory's potential, and thus to provide superior language instruction for the student. (Text is in French.) (DB)

It is suggested that the theory of behavior based on conditioning processes can be reconciled with new data, but only by revising certain tacit behaviorist assumptions about the parameters of the conditioning process. (Author/AM)

Experimenters in the past have reported that when insulin is used as the unconditioned stimulus (US), rats will learn an aversion to a sodium chloride but not a sucrose solution, whereas with formalin as the US, they will learn an aversion to a sucrose but not a saline solution. The present experiments failed to confirm these findings. (Editor)

These experiments investigate situations in which a negative correlation involves a 24 hour delay between the occurrence of a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus; they also investigate the mechanism by which any inhibition so produced might occur. (Author/RK)

Smokers (N = 90) were assigned to 10 treatment conditions; another 20 smokers were included in a no-apply control group. The treatment effects of aversive conditioning were negligible, and in some instances they were surpassed by the effects of controls for nonspecific treatment factors and placebo effects. (Author)