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Download full textParis, Scott G.; Cairns, Robert B. – 1971
The effectiveness of positive and negative evaluative comments for children's learning was assessed in a two-choice discrimination task. Results indicate that negative comments after incorrect responses greatly facilitated learning while positive comments after correct responses had little effect. To explain the findings, a naturalistic analysis…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Elementary School Students, Learning, Learning Motivation
Carter, Ronald D.; Poeschel, Susan M. – 1972
Described is a program to provide educational services for severely emotionally disturbed (autistic or childhood schizophrenic) children based on behavior modification principles. Both formal and informal tests of performance are given in the areas of preacademic and readiness tasks. Each child is individually tutored in language, pre-reading,…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education
Peer reviewedSmeets, Paul M.; Striefel, Sebastian – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1975
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research
Yeager, Joseph C. – Training and Development Journal, 1971
Projects a greater degree of success in developing management abilities in trainees by modifying and controlling human behavior. (EK)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Operant Conditioning, Organizational Climate, Performance Factors
Effects of Varying Amount of Reward in Free Operant Conditioning of Humans on a Fixed-Ratio Schedule
Webb, James T.; Hirschfield, Paul P. – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Experiments
Peer reviewedAyllon, Teodoro; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1975
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Drug Therapy, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedGladstone, Bruce W.; Sherman, James A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1975
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Feedback, Operant Conditioning
Gaylord-Ross, Robert J. – 1979
Four treatment procedures were evaluated for effectiveness in reducing self injurious behavior (SIB) of 22 severely handicapped students. Treatment procedures included contingent restraint, reinforcement withdrawal, differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior, and ommission training (rewarding the S for not emitting the SIB response).…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research
Ayllon, Teodoro; Kelly, Kathleen – 1972
Reported are five studies related to the effects of a token reinforcement system based upon principles of operant conditioning on academic performance of trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children, conducted over a 9-month period in an entire school for TMR students. Study 1 investigated the effects of a school-wide reinforcement program on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedRowbury, Trudylee G.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1976
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances
Proe, Susan; Wade, David – 1973
Evaluated was the effectiveness of three training procedures (imitation training, imitation training with praise, and imitation training with points for an art supply contingency) in improving the oral reading accuracy and reading comprehension of a 13-year-old girl whose functional reading was at the second grade level. The procedures were…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Imitation, Junior High Schools
