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MODIFICATION OF SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL THROUGH SYMBOLIC MODELING 1
Author(s) -
O'Connor Robert D.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1969.2-15
Subject(s) - psychology , social withdrawal , developmental psychology , narrative , social relation , control (management) , behavior change , social psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
The present experiment was designed to test the efficacy of symbolic modeling as a treatment to enhance social behavior in preschool isolates. Nursery school children who displayed marked social withdrawal were assigned to one of two conditions. One group observed a film depicting increasingly more active social interactions between children with positive consequences ensuing in each scene, while a narrative soundtrack emphasized the appropriate behavior of the models. A control group observed a film that contained no social interaction. Control children displayed no change in withdrawal behavior, whereas those who had the benefit of symbolic modeling increased their level of social interaction to that of non‐isolate nursery school children.