Changing a Student’s Classroom Behavior Using Operant Conditioning Techniques

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Education (MEd)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year

1967

Author dc:creator

• Paulson, Judith Ann

Contributors dc:contributor

• Eldon E. Jacobsen
• Theodor F. Naumann
• Joseph E. Rich

• Education
• Problem children--Education
• Reinforcement (Psychology)
• Disability and Equity in Education
• Educational Psychology

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/745

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1763