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Download full textBijou, Sidney W. – 1975
This paper points out the inadequacies of emotional or drive-based theories of exploratory behavior and offers instead a behavior analysis conceptualization. Exploratory behavior as an emotional state was rejected because the environmental conditions said to arouse exploration and the behaviors said to manifest curiosity are too general to…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Child Development, Curiosity, Motivation
Bijou, Sidney W. – 1968
A 4-year research project developed a preschool program for exceptional children unable to attend public school but not needing to be institutionalized on the basis of empirical behavioral principles. Children were referred from agencies and most had already unsuccessfully used special school services. The average age was 5-5 years, average IQ was…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mathematics
