SOME EXPERIMENTS ON REINFORCEMENT PRINCIPLES WITHIN A PSYCHIATRIC WARD FOR DELINQUENT SOLDIERS1
- 1 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Vol. 3 (1), 29-37
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1970.3-29
Abstract
Several experiments exploring the effects of certain behavioral procedures were performed on a psychiatric ward for delinquent soldiers. Within the context of a point economy, the behavioral procedures were examined for their applicability to this patient group in a hospital-ward setting. The following procedures were studied: (1) use of points as consequences for specific behaviors compared with demonstration of “model” behavior by a ward officer; (2) punishment by a point-fine to control undesired behavior; (3) use of a chaining-type reinforcement contingency to increase desired behavior; (4) differential reinforcement of the individual versus the group to increase the frequency of a verbal performance; and (5) reinforcement of reports of personal problems versus impersonal problems.Keywords
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