Reinforcement Schedule Effects on Long-Term Behavior Change

Reinforcement Schedule Effects on Long-Term Behavior Change.

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to determine whether different schedules of contingency management (CM), in conjunction with psychosocial treatment, produced different rates of abstinence and treatment attendance among individuals dependent on methamphetamine. METHODS Individuals were randomized into 1 of 3 conditions that sought to equate total potential reinforcer magnitude whil...

the effects of keyword and context methods on pronunciation and receptive/ productive vocabulary of low-intermediate iranian efl learners: short-term and long-term memory in focus

از گذشته تا کنون، تحقیقات بسیاری صورت گرفته است که همگی به گونه ای بر مثمر ثمر بودن استفاده از استراتژی های یادگیری لغت در یک زبان بیگانه اذعان داشته اند. این تحقیق به بررسی تاثیر دو روش مختلف آموزش واژگان انگلیسی (کلیدی و بافتی) بر تلفظ و دانش لغوی فراگیران ایرانی زیر متوسط زبان انگلیسی و بر ماندگاری آن در حافظه می پردازد. به این منظور، تعداد شصت نفر از زبان آموزان ایرانی هشت تا چهارده ساله با...

Recent reinforcement-schedule research and applied behavior analysis.

Reinforcement schedules are considered in relation to applied behavior analysis by examining several recent laboratory experiments with humans and other animals. The experiments are drawn from three areas of contemporary schedule research: behavioral history effects on schedule performance, the role of instructions in schedule performance of humans, and dynamic schedules of reinforcement. All o...

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Issues in Designing Agents for Long Term Behavior Change

We describe our on-going effort to develop a longitudinal health behavior change counseling system, in which counselor intentions and utterance semantics are explicitly represented, and knowledge is encoded in an ontology to promote re-use.