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ERIC Number: ED075475
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1972
Pages: 7
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Behavior Modification: An Issue for the Teacher?
Garland, LaRetta M.
Modern behavioral scientists have emphasized the importance of environmental influences in human behavior. If the basis for behavior development and change rests within the environment, an understanding and use of the methods of control by change agents, especially teachers, can result in more prosocial behavior. Planned reinforcement could alleviate many of man's social ills and increase his well-being and probably would not prove dangerous to individuality, due to the varieties of social environment and genetic endowment. Three regulatory systems for the acquisition and maintenance of deviant and prosocial behaviors have been identified: (1) response patterns under external stimulus control; (2) response feedback processes in the form of reinforcing consequences; and (3) central mediational processes which act as regulatory mechanisms. The issue of control of behavior--whether control is internal or external--is of particular interest to behavioral scientists. Skinner identified several issues in the shift to acceptance of his theories--freedom, dignity, and values which ultimately raise questions of control. He implies that man is both controller and controlled; the individual controls himself through his manipulation of the culture. (For related documents, see TM 002 548-552, 554-559.) (KM)
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