Changing a Student’s Classroom Behavior Using Operant Conditioning Techniques

This experiment was designed to extinguish a sixth grade boy\u27s undesirable classroom behaviors by the complete withdrawal of teacher attention, and to develop and increase in successive approximations, the child\u27s desirable classroom behaviors by frequent and intermittent teacher attention. The study was meant to be: (a) research replicating numerous other similar studies, but in addition be a behavior modification experiment conducted in a regular classroom setting in an elementary school and in as practical a way as possible for a teacher with 30 students, and (b) a response to a request from the boy\u27s teachers for service and help