Based on findings from research using Keller's Personalized System of Instruction the author describes how college students learn in a well-controlled contingency-managed system utilizing stimulus control, small steps, and self-pacing. Classroom instruction focuses on behaviorally defining objectives, student participation, and mastery of…

Five experiments were conducted to determine whether properties inherent in some training procedures may subtly influence the adaptability of skilled performance of complex tasks. The first two experiments assessed the insensitivity of low-rate performances. Examined in the third experiment was the issue of whether instructions that focus…