A study of the long-range effects of high-intensity training (HIT) was conducted in 13 different programs in eight companies in Baltimore. A total of 99 HIT trainees were interviewed three months after completing the training. After three months the trainees were examined for higher salaries and higher skill levels. HIT appeared to have a positive…

This is the second in a series of studies designed to make the latest research on selected topics available to the educational community. Specifically, this report reviews, synthesizes, and interprets the literature on anxiety. The various chapters: (1) describe the different ways in which anxiety can be viewed as a response (eg.…

To develop and evaluate methods and techniques for the utilization of the principles of behavior modification in the education of behaviorally disordered children in the public schools, eight boys (ages 7 1/2 to 10 1/2, IQ range 84 to 116) constituted an experimental special class group. Their program emphasized bringing under control deviant…

The nature and extent of errors in the oral language of pupils in elementary and secondary school years was investigated. One hundred and eighty subjects were selected from public schools and were administered the Experimental Form B of the new Gray Oral Reading Test. Obtained data were analyzed with descriptive techniques and tests of statistical…

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of conditioning subjects to believe expectancy statements, and to demonstrate the effects of the conditioning on persistence and persistence of attention. A review of related research on suggestion, on cognitive dissonance, and on conditioning is included. The subjects for the experiment…

This study investigated the effects of between-trials variability on the alternation discrimination of retardates. Brightness and size were variable between trials and irrelevant. Initial response outcome and mental age were also independent variables. Neither between-trials variability nor mental age produced a significant main effect, while the…

Twenty children diagnosed as mentally retarded (MR) were enrolled in a special training program designed to increase Ss' school-appropriate behaviors by means of the sequential and consequential arrangement of teaching objectives and teaching procedures. A hierarchy of achievement levels was established with a sequential and consequential…

The 241-item annotated bibliography provides a guide to current literature and films in the fields of mental health, education, counseling, and related areas. The bibliography contains articles dealing with the application of behavior modification principles to parents, teachers, parents and teachers, special settings for children and youth, and…

A Behavior Modification Program was implemented in four classes of a normal public school. These four classes encompassed 93 children ranging in age from 7 to 14 years. Included in the project was a second grade, a third grade, a sixth grade, and a seventh grade. The primary focus of the program in the second, sixth, and seventh grades was upon…

This manual is one of four designed to help supervisors in training hard-core disadvantaged employees. It provides guidelines for preliminary procedures before implementation of a supervisor training program and is intended for the use of those charged with training supervisors. Related documents are available as VT 018 032-018 035 in this issue.…

An 8-year-old hospitalized severaly autistic boy was given up to 8 hours per day of therapy for 5 months in an attempt to establish a strong child-therapist affection relationship (which would serve as the basis for all other therapy) and to train the child through a behavior modification program. The teacher-therapist was a graduate student…

The objectives of this study are twofold: a) measuring students' expressive engagement levels while increasing the teachers' use of two teaching strategies, Personalizing the Task (PT) and Recognizing Individual Achievement (RIA); and b) testing the use of observation, feedback, and training as a practical model for changing teacher behavior.…

Social learning theory is the theory that is applied through microteaching. The two critical sets of social learning variables mediated through microteaching are those associated with modeling and feedback. Microteaching is also a way of bringing specific teaching responses under experimental and behavioral control. Thus in each microteaching…

Presented are the proceedings of an environmental programing workshop on deaf blind individuals at which principles, techniques, and examples of behavior modification were discussed and demonstrated. Rules for data collection are given as well as explanations of the categorizing, the measuring devices, and the data sheets involved in behavior…

Three experiments concerning the modification of student behavior problems in the classroom are described. Experiment I analyzed the differential effects of three different treatments (token reinforcement, social reinforcement, cost contingency or negative reinforcement) in the modification of deviant behavior in an experimentally controlled…