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Hester, Bob F.; And Others – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1976
An institutionalized, retarded, adult male's response to verbal commands was increased through the use of positive control of a discriminative stimulus. Operant conditioning was noted as a possible means of enabling retarded individuals to acquire behaviors fundamental to a self-help repetoire. (Editor)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Educational Research, Mental Retardation, Positive Reinforcement
Sheron, Arvilla A. – Educ Training Ment Retarded, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedRedd, William H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
In two experiments involving a two-choice marble dropping game children responded more to social control than to the magnitude of the reward. (ST)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavioral Science Research, Experimenter Characteristics, Grade 1
Larsen, Lawrence A.; Bricker, William A. – 1968
Designed for both parents and teachers, the handbook presents methods for educating the moderately and severely retarded child. Those methods include measuring progress, rewarding and punishing, ways of using rewards and punishers, ways of giving positive reinforcers and punishers, withholding reinforcers (extinction), letting the child reward…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
