Date of Award
8-1973
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. David O. Lyon
Second Advisor
Hermann Peine
Third Advisor
Robert Hawkins
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
Mother attending to appropriate child behavior and accompaning changes in appropriate child behavior were measured to assess the effects of various instructional conditions. Several appropriate behaviors for a group of child subjects were measured con currently under various stimulus conditions using interval recording procedures. A multiple baseline design was used with instructional conditions of (a) no instructions to mother, (b) instructions to mother to attend to all appropriate behaviors and only to appropriate behaviors, (c) instructions to mother to attend to specific behaviors as defined by one-word definitions, (d) instructions to mother to attend to the same specific behaviors as defined by detailed behavioral definitions, and (e) instructions to mother to attend to these behaviors as defined by detailed behavioral definitions supplemented by intermittent experimenter praise to the mother contingent upon mother attending to these designated behaviors. Results showed that the most effective instructional condition, as reflected by the most change in child behavior, was that of provision of detailed behavior definitions with contingent praise to the mother.
Recommended Citation
Fry, Betty Lou, "The Effects of Instructions with and without Contingencies on Parent’s Attending Behavior" (1973). Masters Theses. 4182.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/4182