Acquisition of Living Skills by Chronic Patients as a Function of Type of Reinforcement
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 49 (1) , 239-245
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1981.49.1.239
Abstract
Current skills-training programs designed to enhance appropriate social behavior of schizophrenics almost exclusively employ positive social reinforcement. However, previous research has demonstrated that schizophrenics are more influenced by mildly aversive consequences than by positive social reinforcement. The present study examined the impact of praise and censure contingencies in a simulated job interview. It was found that observing a model receive censure for inappropriate behavior, and not praise, produced gains in performance for chronic psychiatric inpatients, 22 men and 18 women.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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