Study demonstrated that a significant decrease in student inappropriate behavior could be accomplished through employment of a time-out from positive reinforcement procedure. (Authors)

Emphasizing immediacy of time and place of an experiment, operant behaviorism neglects the polymorphism of learning channels, social influence, exchange over time (diachrony) and over space (arbitrage), and institutions, and its proposed solutions disregard the complexities of culture. (Author/MB)

To increase performance, parents were instructed to present contingent consequences at home. Three methods were used for instructing parents in program management. All three methods resulted in increase in pupils' percent correct, but no substantial difference was observed as a function of mode of parent instruction. (Author)

The study investigated the response of college students to health information obtained in an informal setting as it related to visitation patterns in a student health service. (Author)

Provides diagnosis and treatment guidelines to safeguard against medication for purely repressive reasons. (Author/JH)

Describes a systems approach to reading instruction, employing programed materials and behavioristic concepts. (RB)

Analyzes data from a study of expectations, outcomes, and information-processing among attendants at a University of Michigan, March, 1970 Environmental Teach-In." Also examines two studies which sought to assess resulting changes in the student population at the University of Michigan. (LK)

Positive behavioral changes took place as a result of a program developing the supervisor-manager dialogue that is work-related. (RK)

The study examined the effect of experimentally induced teacher bias, or expectancy, on the subsequent behavior of 24 institutionalized severely retarded children when the bias effects were a result of optimistic psychological reports to cottage parents. (Author)