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Behaviour modification by successive approximation: Saxon age examples from Bede
1Psychology Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Norfolk, UK.
The British Journal of Clinical Psychology
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
This paper describes the treatment of a case of mutism in Saxon England. The shaping procedure employed was similar to that reported in modern behaviour modification studies. The paper quotes from a seventh century papal letter showing an understanding of the principle of shaping as applied to populations.