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Carrison, Muriel Paskin – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Examines three troublesome questions concerning the effects of behavior modification: (1) what other conditionings may occur besides the simple one desired, (2) what type of personality modification is taking place along with behavior modification, and (3) what type of society will result when it consists of individuals trained in this manner?…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Discipline Problems, Operant Conditioning
Lindsey, Bryan L.; Cunningham, James W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Presents twelve reasons why educators should be wary of behavior modification. (JF)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Discipline Problems
Tracy, William A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Answers criticisms of and questions about behavior modification. (JF)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Discipline Problems
Madsen, Clifford K. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Argues that behavior modification represents the use of a series of scientifically verified techniques that could be used to promote more effective learning of both social and academic subject matter. The author maintains that a behavioral approach fails to help the teacher decide why, what, and who is going to learn. (Author/JF)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Discipline Problems
Download full textSibley, Sally A.; And Others – 1967
The goal of the investigation was to eliminate the disruptive, resistant and assaultive behaviors and increase the appropriate peer interaction of an economically disadvantaged kindergarten white boy. The treatment program involved presentation of adult (teacher) attention contingent upon desirable classroom behavior, withholding of attention…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Hamblin, Robert L.; Buckholdt, David – 1967
Recognizing that punishment for aggression often is noneffective or inadvertently reinforces the aggressive act, the authors discuss an alternative approach and provide an explanation of the exchange theory of aggression. Three classroom experiments, operated with children chosen as the most severe behavior problems in a local school system, are…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Hamblin, Robert L.; And Others – 1967
A description of the Social Exchange Laboratory's work with autistic children is presented. The laboratory's philosophy of the exchange theory of autism, seen as a set of habitual response patterns maintained and intensified by exchanges which are inadvertantly structured by others in the child's environment, is set forth with characteristics,…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Walder, Leopold O.; And Others – 1968
A program to teach behavioral analysis principles and applications to parents and other caretakers of disturbing children (normal, retarded, neurotic, psychotic, and others) was developed while serving 50 families. A nine-family study was then done comparing three 12-week treatments (minimum contact 1, nonoperant 1, and operant 1) in terms of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Exceptional Child Research
