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Applied Behavioral Science: Recent submissions
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Public policy-making and research information
(behavior analyst, 1986)Discusses the types of information that behavioral researchers might provide to public policymakers and how it might be delivered in order to shape public policy. The stages of policymaking, including agenda formation, ... -
Toward a technology of generalization: The identification of natural contingencies of reinforcement
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1986)Describes and illustrates 5 forms of evidence useful for demonstrating the existence and function of behavioral traps. Although past researchers have noted a need to program for the generalization and maintenance of behavior ... -
Public information, dissemination, and behavior analysis
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1985)Suggests that behavior analysts have become increasingly concerned about inaccuracies and misconceptions in the public, educational, and professional information portraying their activities. Some of the conditions that ... -
Courseware and behavioral instruction: The design and dissemination of effective
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1985)Comments on P. R. Chase's (1985) suggestions in an earlier edition of the present journal with regard to the integration of behavioral instruction techniques with advanced authoring programs to design complex computerized ... -
Calculating percentage agreement correctly but writing its formula incorrectly
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1985)The conclusion that many behavioral scientists can correctly calculate percentage agreement, but most cannot write the formula used to calculate percentage agreement, is substantiated; purported proof for the correct formula ... -
On differentiation in applied behavior analysis
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1985)Four metaphorical types of activity in the field of applied behavior analysis are considered: prospecting, farming, building, and guiding. Advantages of each sphere are noted, and benefits of this division of labor to the ... -
Interbehavioral psychology and radical behaviorism: Some similarities and differences
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1984)Notes that J. R. Kantor's interbehavioral psychology and Skinner's radical behaviorism, while sharing a number of similar features, also differ on a number of dimensions. Some of these similarities and differences are ... -
Misconception and miseducation: Presentations of radical behaviorism in psychology textbooks
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1983)Analyzed 40 currently used textbooks in the areas of introductory, social, cognitive, personality, and developmental psychology to determine the incidence of misrepresentation of behaviorism. Findings show that topics on ... -
Comments on cognitive science in the experimental analysis of behavior
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1982)Describes arguments for the inclusion of cognitive science in the experimental analysis of behavior. These arguments are critically analyzed, with emphasis on the logic of objective inference and the renewed use of cognitive ... -
A flight of behavior analysis
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1981)Comments on J. Michael's (1980) discussion on the flight from behavior analysis by looking positively upon the following points: The applied people are largely new personnel who are not quick to apply new basic findings ... -
Exploring the controlling conditions of importance
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1990)As part of a series of commentaries on M. Sidman's (1960) book, Tactics of Scientific Research, this review suggests adding 2 additional criteria to Sidman's 5 criteria for evaluating the importance of research. These ... -
Laboratory lore and research practices in the experimental analysis of human behavior: Subject selection
(Association for Behavior Analysis, 1988)Discusses data on S selection processes obtained from a literature survey and 52 members of the Association for Behavior Analysis. Choice of S samples is discussed in terms of marker variables, including age, gender, and ... -
Behavior analysis and public policy
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1988)Discusses the contexts and processes of policymaking, focusing on agenda formation and policy adoption, implementation, and review; and on the legislative and executive processes. Issues are outlined regarding the roles ... -
The Premack principle, response deprivation, and establishing operations
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 2001)This paper describes response deprivation as an establishing operation. In this context, the authors review the concept of establishing operation, in particular, its reinforcer-establishing and evocative effects; response ... -
The discriminative stimulus for punishment or S (Dp)
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 2001)Presents the term discriminative stimulus for punishment and an accompanying symbol S-super(Dp). In describing a study of stimulus control in response-cost punishment with humans, the author notes that there was difficulty ... -
Some reflections on 25 years of the Association for Behavior Analysis: Past, present, and future
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 2001)This paper offers some reflections on the discipline and profession of behavior analysis, as well as on the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA), on the occasion of the association's 25th anniversary. It is based on a ... -
Is fluency free-operant response-response chaining?
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1996)This article briefly reviews behavioral fluency and its 10 products. Fluency development requires three of the four free-operant freedoms: the freedom to present stimuli at the learner's rhythm, the freedom to form the ... -
On the invulnerability of behavior-analytic theory to biological research
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1996)Comments on the article by H. W. Reese (see record 1997-05919-001), and agrees with Reese's conclusion that current biological research aimed at a better understanding of behavior has not changed the preexisting behavioral ... -
W. Edwards Deming, quality analysis, and total behavior management
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1994)Suggests that the origins of the importance of quality are primarily rooted in the awakening recognition of the influence of W. E. Deming (1982, 1986) in the post-World War II restoration of Japanese industry. A brief ... -
Mechanism and contextualism in behavior analysis: Just some observations
(Assn for Behavior Analysis, 1993)Responds to peer commentary on his original article (see record 1993-39723-001) on behavior analysis and mechanism written by D. E. Blackman, R. L. Shull and P. S. Lawrence, and J. E. Staddon (see PA, Vols 23849, 23861, ...
