The extent to which motivational strategies work with individual learners is closely related to the extent that they satisfy or reward fundamental human drives toward achievement, acceptance, knowledge and activity. (Author)

The educational implications discussed emphasized the efficacy of adapting feedback to the individual student. (Author)

Paper presented at Conference on New Approaches to Behavioral Research on Smoking sponsored by the American Cancer Society in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972. (DS)

A twelve-year-old profoundly retarded, self-abusive and assaultive child who did not feed himself was motivated to feed himself and modify undesirable responses within eight days. (Authors)

The purpose of this paper is to review some of the current research on client motivation for rehabilitation in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic variables. (Author)

Counseling approach including remedial learning with peer competition, Teacher training, and supportive counseling proved successful during a 13 week, 26 session program. (Author)

No reliable IQ differences were found when the Stanford-Binet was administered to 100 4-year-old Negro children under two conditions of language (Standard English and Negro dialect) and two conditions of reinforcement (praise and candy). (Author/WY)

Subjects monitored either a target behavior or a competing response, namely, its nonoccurrence. Predicted interaction between style of monitoring and deficit or excess status of target behavior did not occur. Monitoring target behavior was the most effective tactic, producing lowest drop-out rate and greatest maintenance of self-monitoring.…

Black males with a mean age of 5 years 7 months were randomly assigned to one of eight cells of a 2 X 2 X 2 factorial design. Results indicate that when the experimenter was White and female, absence of rewards inhibited preference for delayed rewards. Results support situational specificity of delay preference. (Author/BEF)