The author's recommendations for educators in facing the future call for radical changes in perception and behavior rather than for vast programs with vaster budgets. Chief of these is a change in the approach to "objectivity." (JA)

The effects of a procedure based on differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO) on stereotypic responses and task performance were tested with three autistic students (14-21 years old). The procedure was unique because the time interval employed between potential opportunities for reinforcement was the natural length of one instructional…

Teacher behavior toward two different groups of target students was altered by presenting teachers with information about their previous interaction with the target children. Changes in specified teacher behavior toward target children were accompanied by many additional changes in unspecified teacher behavior toward both target and nontarget…

Although the immediate effect of token reinforcement programs may be positive, the longer range consequences may result in an actual decrease in the behavior desired. (EH)

Criticisms of behavior modification, which charge that it violates ethical and legal principles, are discussed and reasons are presented to explain behavior modification's susceptibility to attack. (GW)

Article intends to help solve the dilemma regarding the advisability of using behavioral objectives. (Author/HB)

Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association (48th, Portland, Oregon, October 20-26, 1968).

The notion of differentially reinforcing low rates of undesirable behavior (DRL) is examined. Further, the status of the full session DRL strategy as alternative to punishment is questioned in context of a strictly operant definition of punishment. A reexamination of the data from some studies reveals the possibility that Ss respond to said DRL…

THE PROCESS OF SUCCESSFUL BEHAVIOR CHANGE IS AFFECTED BY A NUMBER OF SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TRANSITIONAL ROLE. SUCCESS IS MEASURED BY A CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR THAT IS SELF-SUSTAINING, LEADING TO SUCCESSFUL OCCUPATION OF A TERMINAL STATUS. ALTHOUGH THE INITIATING OF MEDICAL STUDENTS INTO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IS GIVEN AS AN…

This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of change within human systems (individuals, groups, organizations, communities). It is reported as being a more realistic and accurate approach than the use of simple raw-score change, easier to calculate than the analysis of co-variance and other procedures designed to equalize the effects of…

This comprehensive bibliography, reflecting 18 months of research by the author, attempts to list every book and journal article dealing with the application of behavior modification principles and techniques with juvenile delinquents. (Author)

Papers dealing with behavior modification, presented at the annual meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (94th, Washington, D.C., May, 1970), are given in a two volume series. Volume 1 deals with the theoretical papers on behavior modification. Burton Blatt urges much needed reform in the mental institutions of today; ground…

This study investigated effects of dissonance and positive reinforcement as feedback mechanisms for altering the humanistic behavior of student teachers. The subjects were undergraduate education majors who were enrolled in a student teaching program. The student teachers were observed twice by their pupils using the Tuckman Teacher Feedback Form.…