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Training impulsive children to talk to themselves: A means of developing self-control.

Meichenbaum, Donald H., Goodman, Joseph·1971·Journal of Abnormal Psychology
DOI 10.1037/h0030773
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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.

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  • Meichenbaum and colleagues demonstrated that impulsive children could be instructed to talk to themselves, and results indicated that children committed fewer errors when they participated in self-instruction training.

    “Years ago, Meichenbaum and colleagues (e.g., Meichenbaum & Goodman, 1971) demonstrated that impulsive children could be instructed to talk to themselves.Specifically, these researchers conducted several experiments in which they taught children to use private speech (e.g., ''Good, I'm doing fine so far.Remember go slow!'') in a self-instruction training.Results indicated that children committed”

    From Implementation Intentions Facilitate Response Inhibition in Children with ADHD (2008) · cites this paper as Meichenbaum & Goodman, 1971

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Authors
Meichenbaum, D. H., & Goodman, J.
Affiliations
University of Waterloo (CA)
Venue
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
1971-04
Volume
77
Issue
2
Pages
115-126
ISSN
  • 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1846
DOI
10.1037/h0030773
OpenAlex
W2031954515
Cited by
1,346
References
0
Citations by year
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FWCI
26.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
Keywords
self-education, self-control, impulsivity, children, self-reinforcement, verbal rehearsal, self-guidance, cognitive training, problem solving, nonverbal behavior, model demonstration
MeSH terms
Analysis of Variance, Attention, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Cognition, Female, Humans, Imitative Behavior, Impulsive Behavior, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Male, Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Behavior

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