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THE EFFECTS OF MODELLING ON THE CONTINGENT PRAISE OF MENTAL RETARDATION COUNSELLORS
Author(s) -
Gladstone Bruce W.,
Spencer Christopher J.
Publication year - 1977
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.1977.10-75
Subject(s) - praise , multiple baseline design , psychology , developmental psychology , baseline (sea) , hygiene , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , intervention (counseling) , oceanography , pathology , geology
A multiple‐baseline design was used to evaluate the effects of a simple modelling procedure on the contingent praise of five counsellors while they conducted hygiene‐training sessions in toothbrushing and hand‐and‐face washing with severely retarded children. After varying numbers of baseline sessions, each counsellor watched a model who conducted a series of toothbrushing sessions, in which he conspicuously praised correct toothbrushing responses and approximations to correct responses. No modelling occurred during hand‐and‐face washing sessions. As a result of several exposures to the model's performance, levels of response‐contingent praise provided by four of the five counsellors during toothbrushing sessions increased sharply over baseline. The levels of counsellor praise showed parallel increases during hand‐and‐face washing sessions. A two‐week followup showed that the levels of praise obtained through modelling were maintained in the model's absence.