abstract：:The value of token reinforcement in the instatement and shaping of fluency was examined in an intensive treatment program for adult stutterers. Experiment 1 examined the effect of removing the tangible back-up reinforcers for the token system and found that clients' performance in the program was equally good with or ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Howie PM,Woods CL

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been little research on the effects of the many procedural variables in applied group contingencies. In the present study, an individualized contingency and three group contingencies with different "responder" criteria (e.g., reward based on the group average, reward based on the work of a designated, low-ac...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Speltz ML,Shimamura JW,McReynolds WT

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a BAB design, a token system requiring cooperative interaction was used to change the reading and vocabulary performance of an 18-member class of third-grade hyperactive boys. Four different colored tokens, which could be exchanged for 15 minutes of play on electrovideo games, were earned by successful completio...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Robinson PW,Newby TJ,Ganzell SL

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thousands of children are injured or killed each year in school bus accidents. A significant number of these tragic incidents is precipitated by disruptive child behavior that distracts the drivers from their difficult task. Two experiments were conducted which addressed this problem. For both experiments an automated...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Greene BF,Bailey JS,Barber F

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Present research and legislation regarding mainstreaming autistic children into normal classrooms have raised the importance of studying whether autistic children can benefit from observing normal peer models. The present investigation systematically assessed whether autistic children's learning of discrimination task...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Egel AL,Richman GS,Koegel RL

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the effects of a flexible work schedule ("flextime") on time allocated to children and spouse by federal workers. Direct behavioral observations of family, home, and work functions were precluded because of the cost involved in observing many people for long periods of time. In order to obtain deta...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Winett RA,Neale MS

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matching-to-sample procedures were used to assess picture representation skills of severely retarded, nonverbal adolescents. Identity matching within the classes of objects and life-size, full-color photos of the objects was first used to assess visual discrimination, a necessary condition for picture representation. ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Dixon LS

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the quality of observational data is generally evaluated by observer agreement, measures of both observer agreement and accuracy were available in the present study. Videotapes with a criterion protocol were coded by 16 observers. All observers calculated agreement scores both on their own and their partner's...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Boykin RA,Nelson RO

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the search for effective and replicable approaches to planned change in communities has escalated. Applied behavior analysts have participated in these efforts to remedy existing community problems and to increase the capacities of community residents to meet their goals. Examples of behavioral techno...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Fawcett SB,Mathews RM,Fletcher RK

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen moderately and mildly retarded adults were selected from a group residential facility and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received a 12-session interpersonal skills training program consisting of instruction in the following areas: (1) Introduction and Small Talk, (...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Bates P

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conventional litter receptacle (55-gallon drum) and a specially designated receptacle consisting of a 55-gallon drum adorned with a plywood "har" were alternated in two areas of a football stadium over a period of four games. A frequency count of several types of litter articles showed that more than twice as many i...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： O'Neill GW,Blanck LS,Joyner MA

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relation between prevocational preference, as measured by the client's selection of a task object, and the work that followed that choice. After selecting a task object, the clients worked a task previously assessed to be more or less preferred than the one indicated by the object. The resu...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Mithaug DE,Mar DK

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three retarded adults who had minimal ability to tell time were trained to "time-manage." Each was given a card with clock face representations on which the hands of the clock were drawn, representing each trainee's assigned lunch and break times. Instruction was given before work to perform each of the required behav...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Sowers JA,Rusch FR,Connis RT,Cummings LE

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uncooperative behavior of grade-school children during dental treatment was examined. Forty children enrolled in a government dental program were observed during treatment conditions involving instructions concerning the appropriate behavior required by the dental practitioner, description of the objective procedu...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Stokes TF,Kennedy SH

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one female patients suffering from diagnosed idiopathic Raynaud's Disease were trained to raise digital skin temperature using either autogenic training, progressive muscle relaxation, or a combination of autogenic training and skin temperature feedback. Patients were instructed in the treatment procedures in t...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Keefe FJ,Surwit RS,Pilon RN

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biomotometer, an electronic device which simultaneously measures motor activity and provides auditory feedback, was used in combination with material reinforcers in an experiment to reduce children's activity level in a classroom setting. Subjects were nine boys and two girls, aged 9--13, from a day hospital progr...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Schulman JL,Suran BG,Stevens TM,Kupst MJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of sensory reinforcement was examined in programming multiple treatment gains in self-stimulation and spontaneous play for developmentally disabled children. Two phases were planned. First, we attempted to identify reinforcers maintaining self-stimulation. Sensory Extinction procedures were implemented in whi...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Rincover A,Cook R,Peoples A,Packard D

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies were conducted to analyze behaviors of staff and patients on a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). In the first study, behavioral observation procedures were employed to assess patient state, physical position, affect, verbal behaviors, visual attention and activity engagement, and staff verbal behavior....

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Cataldo MF,Bessman CA,Parker LH,Pearson JE,Rogers MC

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of smoking risk is first reviewed and a classification of procedures for assessing smoking behavior is presented. Areas requiring assessment include not only the traditionally measured smoking rate, but also the substance used and topography of consumption. Each of these areas may be assessed through a vari...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Frederiksen LW,Martin JE,Webster JS

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percentage agreement measures of interobserver agreement or "reliability" have traditionally been used to summarize observer agreement from studies using interval recording, time-sampling, and trial-scoring data collection procedures. Recent articles disagree on whether to continue using these percentage agreement mea...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Birkimer JC,Brown JH

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assessment instrument is presented for the evaluation of the quantity and quality of dyadic interaction, as well as for the daily recording of behaviors presented and omitted which influence marital satisfaction. Comparison of data from ten happy couples and from ten couples entering therapy indicated two distinct ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Williams AM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effectiveness of several behavioral techniques on compliance of college students taking vitamin C on q.i.d. regimen. Compliance was assessed by a new technique using a variation of the urine tracer procedure designed specifically for this study. Subjects were provided vitamin C tablets, with th...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Epstein LH,Masek BJ

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various statistics have been proposed as standard methods for calculating and reporting interobserver agreement scores. The advantages and disadvantages of each have been discussed in this journal recently but without resolution. A formula is presented that combines separate measures of occurrence and nonoccurrence pe...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Harris FC,Lahey BB

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral measures of food consumption and tasting were combined with nutrient analysis of foods served at a toddler day-care center to determine whether children at the stage of initial exposure to adult diets would accept textured vegetable protein (TVP) and nonfat dry milk as well as they ate other sources of prot...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Herbert-Jackson E,Risley TR

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-element baseline design combined with a multiple-baseline design, was used to investigate the effect of availability of materials, prizes for participation, and instruction on the leisure behavior of 14 mentally retarded women in a half-way house. A leisure program was conducted on weekday evenings, during whi...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Johnson MS,Bailey JS

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A token reinforcement program involving two levels of token value and backup reinforcers to increase journal reshelving behavior in a large university library was experimentally evaluated. Results showed that instructions (in which signs asked users to reshelve journals) had no impact. By contrast, token reinforcement...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Meyers H,Nathan PE,Kopel SA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of using teachers as behavioral observers on both student and teacher behavior was examined with eight teachers and 32 elementary school children. The frequency of prompts (but not praise or criticism) to those students observed by the teacher increased significantly from nonobserver to teacher observed exp...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Hay LR,Nelson RO,Hay WM

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug versus placebo effects were contrasted with those of contingency management in the treatment of a hyperactive child. Several criterion behaviors were monitored in two different settings to gauge the breadth and generalizability of drug and behavior-management effects. Medication and contingency management effects...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Wulbert M,Dries R

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous recommendations to employ occurrence, nonoccurrence, and overall estimates of interobserver reliability for interval data are reviewed. A rationale for comparing obtained reliability to reliability that would result from a random-chance model is explained. Formulae and graphic functions are presented to allow...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Hopkins BL,Hermann JA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A program was designed to teach coin equivalence to mentally retarded adolescents. Coin equivalence was defined as choosing several different combinations of coins to equal specified target values. A pretest-posttest matched-groups design was employed with an experimental group receiving the monetary training, and a n...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Trace MW,Cuvo AJ,Criswell JL

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive practice overcorrection has been shown to be effective in reducing stereotypic self-stimulatory behaviors displayed by retarded and autistic individuals. In addition, the procedure also may increase the occurrence of appropriate behavior through intensive practice. In the present study, several stereotypic an...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Wells KC,Forehand R,Hickey K,Green KD

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:THIS ARTICLE REPORTS ON THE PRIMARY STEPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PARENT ADVICE FOR POPULAR DISSEMINATION: (a) developing advice for one specific problem situation, family shopping trips; (b) testing the advice program for benefit to children and convenience to adults; and (c) packaging the advice so it can be used succ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Clark HB,Greene BF,Macrae JW,McNees MP,Davis JL,Risley TR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen second-grade children initially received feedback in the form of nonredeemable tokens for reducing their disruptive classroom behavior. Four types of tutoring were then introduced in a Latin Square Design: noncontingent tutoring from fifth-grade peers, contingent peer tutoring, noncontingent college tutoring,...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Robertson SJ,Dereus DM,Drabman RS

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of prompting and social reinforcement directed to target subjects on their social behavior and that of peers who never received prompting and reinforcement for positive social behavior, were examined. In a combined reversal and multiple-baseline design, three behaviorally handicapped preschool boys who exh...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Strain PS,Shores RE,Kerr MM

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were conducted on four units of a residential facility for the multiply-handicapped retarded in an attempt to improve daily care and training services. Experiment I compared the effects of two procedures in maintaining the work performance of attendants, using an A-B design on two units. One procedure ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Iwata BA,Bailey JS,Brown KM,Foshee TJ,Alpern M

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shoplifting is one of the most frequent crimes in the United States, yet there is no agreement about effective prevention procedures. Since most prevention strategies are aimed at either increasing public awareness of the severity of the consequences or increasing the threat of detection, procedures that contain these...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： McNees MP,Egli DS,Marshall RS,Schnelle JF,Risley TR

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using audiotaped descriptions of sexual experiences and a direct measure of penile erection, it is possible to specify more precisely erotic cues in sexual deviates. Results indicated that such cues are highly idiosyncratic. Some tentative conclusions and suggested application for the method are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Abel GG,Blanchard EB,Barlow DH,Mavissakalian M

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of an instructional package on public-speaking behaviors was analyzed in two experiments. The instructional package was designed to teach public-speaking trainees to look at the audience, make gestures, and perform a number of speaking behaviors. The results of Experiment I, with a university student servin...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Fawcett SB,Miller LK

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covariation within behavior repertoires of problem children were examined. Two boys, referred for psychological help, were observed both at school and at home for about 3 yr. A coded observation system permitted scoring of 19 child-behavior categories and six social-environment categories. After a two-month baseline, ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Wahler RG

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most social evaluation research it is difficult to achieve the degree of experimental rigor possible in an applied behavioral study. This study illustrates how the evaluation researcher can increase experimental rigor in the analysis of social interventions. In the first evaluation, a variation of the time-series d...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Schnelle JF,Kirchner RE,McNees MP,Lawler JM

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00