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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Behavioral Economic Supplement to Brief Motivational Interventions for College Drinking
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Murphy, James G.; Dennhardt, Ashley A.; Skidmore, Jessica R.; Borsari, Brian; Barnett, Nancy P.; Colby, Suzanne M.; Martens, Matthew P. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: Behavioral economic theory suggests that a reduction in substance use is most likely when there is an increase in rewarding substance-free activities. The goal of this randomized controlled clinical trial was to evaluate the incremental efficacy of a novel behavioral economic supplement (Substance-Free Activity Session [SFAS]) to a…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Depression (Psychology), Relaxation Training, Rewards
The Student-Guided Supports Curriculum
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Pinkney, Christopher Jamal – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study sought to evaluate the effect of participation in the Student-Guided Supports (SGS) curriculum on student behavior. The SGS curriculum was designed to teach students a set of simple behaviors to prompt and reinforce supportive teacher behavior. Student use of the SGS behaviors was hypothesized to initiate a constructive cycle of…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Curriculum, Behavior Modification, Reinforcement
Brief Report: Signals Enhance the Suppressive Effects of Noncontingent Reinforcement
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Ringdahl, Joel E.; Call, Nathan A.; Christensen, Tory; Boelter, Eric W. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2010
The effects of noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) schedules on responding were assessed across two parameters: presence of signal and schedule density. Results indicated that signaled NCR schedules were correlated with greater overall reductions in responding and quicker reductions relative to NCR schedules without a signal. The clinical…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Autism, Correlation, Stimuli
School Violence in Secondary Education in the Governorate of Mafraq: Forms, Causes and Prevention--A Case Study
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Khaled, Mohammad S. Bani – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
This study considers school violence. It was investigated in secondary schools in the governorate of Mafraq. The aim is to identify the forms and causes of the phenomenon; hence to come out with the preventive and remedial measures, accordingly. The study was conducted in one of the secondary schools selected randomly in the city of Mafraq in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Secondary Schools, Educational Environment
Discriminative Control of Punished Stereotyped Behavior in Humans
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Doughty, Shannon S.; Anderson, Cynthia M.; Doughty, Adam H.; Williams, Dean C.; Saunders, Kathryn J. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
The purpose of this experiment was to establish discriminative control of responding by an antecedent stimulus using differential punishment because the results of past studies on this topic have been mixed. Three adults with mental retardation who exhibited stereotypy not maintained by social consequences (i.e., automatic reinforcement)…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Punishment, Adults, Mental Retardation
Replacing Relative Reinforcing Efficacy with Behavioral Economic Demand Curves
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Johnson, Matthew W.; Bickel, Warren K. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
Relative reinforcing efficacy refers to the behavior-strengthening or maintaining property of a reinforcer when compared to that of another reinforcer. Traditional measures of relative reinforcing efficacy sometimes have led to discordant results across and within studies. By contrast, previous investigations have found traditional measures to be…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Behavior, Consumer Economics, Experiments