title: Engineering the behavioral engineer.
abstract: Twenty-eight nursing staff members treated, by operant methods, a simulated headbanging patient. They were randomly assigned to four experimental conditions, involving improvement versus non-improvement of the "patient" and promise of reward versus no promise of reward. The promise of reward significantly improved accuracy of treatment. Improvement of the patient, however, did not improve accuracy.
authors.affiliation: Kingston Psychiatric Hospital, Kingston, Ontario.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loeber