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Changing A Student’S Classroom Behavior Using Operant Conditioning Techniques, Judith Ann Paulson
Changing A Student’S Classroom Behavior Using Operant Conditioning Techniques, Judith Ann Paulson
All Master's Theses
This experiment was designed to extinguish a sixth grade boy's undesirable classroom behaviors by the complete withdrawal of teacher attention, and to develop and increase in successive approximations, the child's desirable classroom behaviors by frequent and intermittent teacher attention. The study was meant to be: (a) research replicating numerous other similar studies, but in addition be a behavior modification experiment conducted in a regular classroom setting in an elementary school and in as practical a way as possible for a teacher with 30 students, and (b) a response to a request from the boy's teachers for service and help.
The Relative Effects Of Immediate And Delayed Reinforcement On A Programed Learning Task, A. Lee Parks
The Relative Effects Of Immediate And Delayed Reinforcement On A Programed Learning Task, A. Lee Parks
All Master's Theses
It was the purpose of this study (1) to compare the effects of immediate knowledge of results and delayed knowledge of results on a programed task to determine which, if either, would result in superior learning; and (2) to explore the effect of these two variables on the amount of retention of learning over time.