The article demonstrates practical and theoretical support of author's circular model of behavior. This model implies that if you change behavior you will change opinion. It directly relates to teaching children in the classroom through actual experience, as opposed to lectures. (Author/RR)

Incentive and behavior were investigated in the study focusing upon a comparison of the effects of response cost (for errors) and response reward (for correct responses) on verbal performance of mentally retarded subjects. (KW)

Four variations of the thought stopping technique were applied to a color naming obsession. After 17 treatment sessions the frequency of this obsession had decreased by 95 percent, and a month later it was entirely absent. It did not recur in the course of a seven month followup period. (Author)

The use of relatively new medicines to induce children to follow accepted standards of behavior is discussed. (CK)

In training teacher's aides, the following techniques were used to teach behavior modification principles: (1) video tapes; (2) behavior measures of training effects; (3) a behavioral task; (4) attitude measure. Through these techniques, maximum change occurred in trainee behavior. (Author/KJ)

Analyses of data from task measuring imitative acquisition of cognitive responses indicated that differences in performance were related to differences in (a) treatment, (b) sex and role of rewarder, and (c) sex of rewarder and sex of subject. (DR)