University of Kansas.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1975 Summer;8(2):125-35. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1975.8-125.
The effect of an instructional package on public-speaking behaviors was analyzed in two experiments. The instructional package was designed to teach public-speaking trainees to look at the audience, make gestures, and perform a number of speaking behaviors. The results of Experiment I, with a university student serving as the trainee, showed that the percentage of each category of public-speaking target behavior increased only after the instructional package was introduced for that category. The results of Experiment 2, with three low-income paraprofessional staff members of a neighborhood service center serving as trainees, showed that the percentage of target behaviors increased after the instructional package was introduced for the respective trainee. Audience ratings of public-speaking performance were correlated with direct observations of target responses. All trainees showed marked improvements in audience ratings from pretraining to posttraining. This study demonstrated an effective procedure for training public-speaking behaviors.
两个实验分析了教学方案对演讲行为的影响。该教学方案旨在教授演讲学员如何与观众进行眼神交流、使用手势以及进行一系列演讲行为。实验 1 的结果显示，在引入该教学方案后，学员在每个演讲目标行为类别中的表现比例仅略有增加。实验 2 的结果显示，在引入教学方案后，社区服务中心的三名低收入准专业人员的目标行为比例有所增加。观众对演讲表现的评分与对目标反应的直接观察结果相关。所有学员在培训前后的观众评分上均有显著提高。本研究展示了一种培训演讲行为的有效程序。
