A Review of Behavior Modification

The concept of modeling as a technique for behavior modification was first introduced in the 1960's by Albert Bandura. His later works demonstrated simply watching another individual receive reinforcement for a particular behavior would later increase the rates of a given behavior in the viewer as well as the model. Much work has been done on the concept of modeling since the pioneering work of Bandura. Research on modeling has not been limited to behavior …

…attained by two of the children. The overall acquisition level was not improved by ‘self' videos as opposed to ‘other' videos. Video modeling can be a useful technique for teaching conversation speech to some autistic children. Results suggest the video modeling method may be more beneficial to those students who possess a greater visual learning ability. Test findings also suggest using ‘other' as a model is equally as effective as using ‘self' as a model.