Discovering reinforcers (TEFC)

United States, 1979

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Episode of Series “Effective Behavioural Programming”.
Tape 1 : The use of reinforcers in the classroom is the key to motivating students. Reinforcers are events that follow a response and increase the probability that the response will occur again. Retarded people have fewer reinforcers. It is important for a teacher to discover appropriate reinforcers for the particular class NB. This tape is on 525 line NTSC.

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Credits

director

John Socha

production company

Macomb Community College Instructional Television

Duration

00:41:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1979

Appears in

Effective Behavioural Programming

Group of items

Effective Behavioural Programming

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

015894

Language

English

Subject categories

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Behavior therapy

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped - Education

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Reinforcement (Psychology)

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic (low band); Access Print (Section 1)

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