Document Type

Thesis

Date of Degree Completion

1967

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Experimental Psychology

Committee Chair

Marion D. Harless

Second Committee Member

Dohn A. Miller

Third Committee Member

Howard Bruce Robinson

Fourth Committee Member

Thomas B. Collins, Jr.

Abstract

It was hypothesized that (a) if attending and correct responses were followed by approving attention from the staff, then the rates of attending and giving correct responses would significantly increase; (b) if yelling, rocking, and hitting were immediately followed by a command to stop, or by placement in a time-out room, then the rates of those behaviors would significantly decrease; and (c) if the above conditioning procedures were dropped, then the rates of all behaviors under study would return toward their operant levels.

Language

English

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