Date of Award
8-1982
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. Neil D. Kent
Second Advisor
Dr. R. Wayne Fuqua
Third Advisor
Dr. Alan Poling
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
A multiple baseline design across instructional conditions was used to assess the effects of a s ta ff training package consisting of written rules, daily monitoring, public posting of performance data, and allotments of contingent break-time privileges on the behavior management skills of tutors in suppressing the stereotypic behavior of retarded individuals. The intervention package was sequentially introduced in three different instructional conditions in the following order: a group session, a one-to-one session, and a transition period. Following baseline, three tutors were trained to apply consistent and accurate consequences to varying rates of self-stimulatory behavior exhibited by three impaired subjects. The findings suggest that the training package produced direct and transferred changes in behavior management s k ills . In addition, a substantial decrease in self-stimulatory behavior occurred as a result of improved and increased behavior management techniques. However, reliable changes in academic task performance were not observed.
Recommended Citation
Bellis, Elaine, "Acquisition and Transfer of Behavior Management Skills: An Empirical Functional Analysis of Staff and Client Gains" (1982). Masters Theses. 1634.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1634