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Peer reviewedFrankel, Fred – Mental Retardation, 1976
Presented is research evidence in support of the use of behavior extinction procedures for mentally handicapped persons in residential treatment situations. (IM)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedStriefel, Sebastian; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
In this study, a transfer of stimulus control procedure was used to establish generalized verb-noun instruction-following skills in two severely retarded boys. (Author/JH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Conditioning, Handicapped Children, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedKazdin, Alan E. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedSloop, E. Wayne; Kennedy, Wallace A. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Conditioning, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedWelsch, William V.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1973
Feedback procedures were used on two different wards at a state hospital for the retarded to increase the number of behavior modification projects completed each day by 22 staff members. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Feedback, Institutions
Peer reviewedNawas, M. Mike; Braum, Stephen H. – Mental Retardation, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedMacht, Joel – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Measurement Techniques, Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning
Sersen, Eugene A.; and others – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1970
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Conditioning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedMulvaney, Dallas E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Two normal and two mentally retarded children were trained to earn pennies by pressing a key according to a multiple variable-interval extinction schedule of reinforcement. Retarded children differed from normal children by producing more positive than negative discriminative stimuli. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Mental Retardation
Dube, William V.; McIlvane, William J. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2002
Sensitivity to reinforcement contingencies was examined in six individuals with mental retardation using a concurrent operants procedure in the context of a computer game. Results included individual differences in sensitivity and differential sensitivity to rate and magnitude variation. Results suggest that comprehensive assessments of potential…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Contingency Management, Evaluation Methods
Kemp, Briony M. – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning
Foster, James; Miller, Leona Nation – Pointer, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedYen, Sherman – Mental Retardation, 1974
The developmental pattern of present behavior modification programs for the adult mentally retarded is evaluated. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Community Programs, Exceptional Child Education
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Repp, Alan C. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedDecker, T. Newell; Wilson, Wesley R. – Mental Retardation, 1977
Examined was the use of Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (use of a moving toy animal to reinforce head turning to sound) in measuring hearing thresholds of 28 institutionalized profoundly retarded persons (9-28 years old). (CL)
Descriptors: Audiometric Tests, Auditory Evaluation, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
