The effectiveness of an advice package designed to restructure the restaurant environment and encourage parent praise was examined. Experiment I assessed the utility of the package when its use was prompted with experimenter assistance. Videotapes were used to record the target child's behavior. Pre-Meal inappropriate behavior decreased an average of 51% across target children. Mealtime inappropriate behavior and parent praise and disapproval were also measured. / Experiment II was designed to determine whether families could implement the package without experimenter assistance and whether effects obtained would generalize across settings. Data were taken in vivo. Nine families were randomly assigned to one of three sequences which determined the order in which families went to two restaurants. Results of Experiment II show that when using the advise package, parents in all sequences were able to decrease the inappropriate behavior of their children. Data from generalization restaurants show that these effects can be maintained across restaurants. The utility of such advice packages is discussed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-11, Section: B, page: 4251. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74357 |
| Contributors | BAUMAN, KENNETH E., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 72 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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