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Patterson, Gerald R.; Stouthamer-Loeber, Magda – Child Development, 1984
The family-management skills of parents of seventh- and tenth-grade boys were related to each of two criterion measures of delinquency: police contacts and self-reported delinquency. The measures of parent monitoring and discipline were shown to correlate significantly with both criterion measures. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Delinquency, Discipline, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education

Peck, Stephanie M.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1996
This study of five young children with developmental delays or chronic health problems and with aberrant behaviors identified reinforcers that maintained aberrant behavior, used functional communication training to teach participants to gain reinforcement using mands, and implemented treatment involving choice making via manding. (JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Chronic Illness

Hill, Jane; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1989
The study found significant improvements in behavior when a profoundly mentally retarded blind subject was reinforced with music. The young woman also discriminated among different types of music, and behavior rates varied accordingly. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Blindness

Houlihan, Daniel D.; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1992
A simultaneous presentation procedure to select reinforcers was implemented with two four-year-old twin boys who were developmentally delayed, noncompliant, and mute. Use of the procedure quickly and efficiently identified preferred reinforcers which were then used in an instructional task. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Developmental Disabilities

Rodgers, Teresa A.; Iwata, Brian A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1991
Seven adults with severe to profound mental retardation participated in match-to-sample discrimination training under three conditions. Results indicated that error-correction procedures improve performance through negative reinforcement; that error correction may serve multiple functions; and that, for some subjects, trial repetition enhances…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Discrimination Learning, Drills (Practice)

Zarcone, Jennifer R.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1991
This replication study found that only 16 of 55 raters agreed on the category of reinforcement maintaining a disabled individual's self-injurious behavior after using the Motivation Assessment Scale. Additionally, only 15 percent of the correlation coefficients obtained were above 80 percent, and none of the reliability scores was above 80…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales

Burke, William H.; And Others – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1988
A broad spectrum behavior therapy approach was used to treat physical aggression in 5 brain-injured males (ages 18-28). The approach employed high density reinforcement, reinforcer sampling, environmental control, selection of appropriate responses, inconvenience review, self-control training, and self-monitoring. All five subjects showed…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Modification, Contingency Management, Head Injuries

Kern, Lee; Marder, Tamara J. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1996
This study compared the relative efficacy of providing simultaneous or delayed reinforcement on food acceptance during meals with a seven-year-old boy with pervasive developmental disorder and a history of food selectivity. Although both procedures were effective, the simultaneous reinforcement procedure produced more rapid behavior change and a…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Children

Goh, Han-Leong; Iwata, Brian A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1994
The self-injurious escape behavior of an adult with developmental disabilities was treated with extinction. Results of a reversal design showed substantial bursts of responding when extinction was introduced and reintroduced: self-injury remained at a variable and elevated rate for some time before stable, low rates were observed. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies

Snyder, James; Patterson, Gerald R. – Child Development, 1986
Identifies reliable mother action-child reaction patterns and assesses the effect of maternal consequences for those patterns on the probability of their subsequent occurrence. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Compliance (Psychology), Mothers

Valenti, S. Stavros – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Describes two experiments that examined the conditions determining age changes in novelty preferences of children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Learning Strategies

Blum, Nathan J.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1996
This study examined the effects of methylphenidate drug therapy and differential reinforcement on the disruptive behavior and task engagement of 3 children (ages 6 through 11) with mental retardation. Results indicated that both interventions were effective for two of the children. No evidence of an additive or synergistic effects of the two…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Biological Influences, Children

Lerman, Dorothea C.; Iwata, Brian A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1996
Basic and applied research on variables that influence the extinction of operant behaviors is reviewed and applied to the treatment of behavior disorders. The potential value of a general technology for the use of behavioral extinction is discussed. The paper concludes that current research findings are not sufficient for the development of a…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Extinction (Psychology)

Smith, Richard G.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1996
This study compared rates of self-injurious behavior (SIB) exhibited by a 32-year-old woman with profound mental retardation across conditions in which access to restraint was either continuously available, presented as a consequence for SIB, or unavailable. Rates of SIB increased when access to restraint was contingent upon SIB, suggesting that…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies

Shore, Bridget A.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1994
Generalization across three stimulus parameters (therapist, setting, and demands) was examined for five men with severe/profound mental retardation whose self-injurious behavior was maintained by escape from task demands. Variables were held constant during the escape extinction treatment. Full or partial generalization to novel situations was…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Extinction (Psychology)