Montrose M. Wolf (1935-2004)

J Appl Behav Anal. 2005 Summer;38(2):279-87. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2005.165-04.

Abstract

Montrose Madison Wolf, who discovered the reinforcing power of adult attention for children and based on that discovery invented and named the nonviolent parenting procedure time-out; who discovered that absent speech and social development could be artificially created with operant conditioning techniques; who first engineered a token economy into a useful motivational system; who invented the good behavior game; who orchestrated the massive research program that developed and refined the Teaching-Family Model as a residential treatment solution for delinquent development; who reinvented field observation, repeated measurement, and single-subject research methods; who introduced and named the concept of social validity; and who led the founding of the discipline of problem-solving real-world research called applied behavior analysis, died of Huntington's disease on March 19, 2004, at his home in Lawrence, Kansas.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Child Development
  • Conditioning, Operant / physiology*
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability / history
  • Problem Solving*
  • Psychology / history*
  • United States

Personal name as subject

  • Montrose M Wolf