Children who were forbidden use of an attractive toy were later tempted with attractive prizes to falsify scores. Subjects who complied with the initial severe threat showed less resistence to temptation than control subjects. (JB)

This description of the various aspects of the Devereux Parent Program is intended for use as a possible model for public and other private schools. (Author)

Brief description of a series of investigations designed to determine the relative effectiveness of various motivators in effecting oral hygiene behavior in a group of junior high school. Presented at the annual meeting of the American School Health Association, San Diego, California, 1972. (JC)

Systematic observations of learning disabled and normal children suggested that learning disabled children spend significantly less time than normal children in task oriented behavior. (Author)

For all California state hospitals, percentages of 11,139 mentally retarded patients were presented for different levels of physical disability and self help skills and for different frequencies of problem behaviors. (Author)

The paper explicates the rationale underlying the coding system, describes the classroom interaction variables subsumed within it, and discusses the special research and consultative advantages offered by this system. (Author)

Important findings of the study indicate that regular cigarette smokers yield less to any smoking behavior changes than do the occasional smokers and well organized and executed anti smoking education programs should start as early as the eighth grade. (Author)

The relationship between three behavior therapies and the experimental behavioral sciences is examined. It is concluded that behavior therapy is one of the few media within which the relevance of the experimental behavioral sciences to clinical medicine can be demonstrated. (Author)

The administration of and student response to a behavioral analysis required of 170 students (steadily dating to engaged) enrolled in the preparation for marriage course at East Carolina University during the academic year 1969-70 are discussed. (Author)

A review of The Reinforcement of Social Behavior" (Houghton Mifflin), edited by Elliott McGinnies and C. B. Ferster. Chapters range from studies of reinforcement in minimal social situations to studies of complex group behavior patterns. (Author/RY)

Delineates misunderstandings of minority cultures at both cognitive and affect level. (Author)