Training impulsive children to talk to themselves

A means of developing self-control.

Bibliographic Data

ID23359490
AuthorsDonald Meichenbaum (University of Waterloo), Donald H Meichenbaum, Joseph K Goodman (0000-0002-0525-5219), Joseph Goodman (0000-0002-4639-3757)
Year1971
Volume77
Issue2
Pages115-126
Publication date1971-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Abnormal Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-843X • E-ISSN: 1939-1846
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/h0030773
PMID5550424
OpenAlexW2031954515
LanguageEN
Citations received103
References cited10

A variety of tasks was employed to train the child to use self-instructions to control his nonverbal behavior. The tasks varied along a dimension from simple sensorimotor abilities to more complex problem-solving abilities. The difficulty level of the training tasks was increased over the four training sessions requiring more cognitively demanding activities. One can imagine a similar training sequence in the learning of a new motor skill such as driving a car. Initially the driver actively goes through a mental checklist, sometimes aloud, which includes verbal rehearsal, self-guidance, and sometimes appropriate self-reinforcement, especially when driving a stick-shift car. Three different psychometric tests were used to assess changes in behavioral and cognitive impulsivity during the pretreatment, posttreatment, and follow-up periods. The impulsive child was exposed to a model which demonstrated the strategy to search for differences that would allow him successively to eliminate as incorrect all variants but one.

Control (management) · Developmental psychology · Self-control · Artificial Intelligence · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · Psychology

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