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University Series 014 | Cal State LA
Join Operant Innovations as we talk with Dr. Hank Schlinger about the undergraduate program at Cal State LA.
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Out of Thin Air?
In speaking of the origins of operant behavior, Skinner famously observed that “[o]perant conditioning shapes behavior as a sculptor shapes a lump of clay.
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A Signal Experience
The discussion centered around whether or not it is good Behavior-ese to describe a discriminative stimulus as signaling the availability of reinforcement.
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Measuring Thoughts
“Neuroscientists Decode Brain Speech Signals into Written Text.” If you suspect that the National Enquirer wrote this recent newspaper headline, you would be wrong. It was published by the respected British newspaper, The Guardian.
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University Series 004 | Western Michigan University, Part 4
Join Operant Innovations for Part 4 of their interview with Western Michigan University. This week we will be speaking with Dr. Jonathan Baker about the newest addition to WMU's elaborate program - the Hybrid Program.
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How Do I Get into Organizational Behavior Management (OBM)?
Wondering how you can get started with your career in OBM? Kelly Therrien, a seasoned consultant, and behavior analyst says to start small and she offers a few suggestions. Read more here!
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A Self-ish Behavior Analysis?
I just googled the word “self”: 3,540,000,000 hits, more or less. That’s three-point five billion, just to be clear. Wow. What a word. What a construct. Whoever came up with the idea of self? (In his recent book, Flesh in the Age of Reason, which I highly recommend, Roy Porter suggested it might have been the 16th-century French philosopher Déscartes.)
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Operant Behavior and Snowflakes
Sitting here at my desk on a cold, snowy morning watching the snowflakes gently descend to blanket the landscape outside my window (such descriptions reveal why I am a behavior analyst and not a poet), reminds me of the operant (another reminder, too, of why I am not a poet). The operant is one of our most important concepts. Operants are classes of responses that have a similar effect on the environment. That effect can be to operate something that allows their measurement (like a child’s block-stacking or a pigeon’s key peck) or to produce a reinforcer or punisher.
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Welcome to Operant Innovations!
Contact Shauna V. Costello, MA, BCBA with your new ideas, articles, or books at operantinnovations@abatechnologies.com.
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Precision Teaching for Classroom Success
Humans are constantly in search of the newest, brightest solution for problems in everyday life. We download countless apps for tracking calories, learning languages, working out, budgeting—you name it. In education, we do the same. But the newest, brightest thing in teaching and learning might not be the solution
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Telling Our Story: Importance of Dissemination
Effective tools and interventions are the hallmarks of behavior analysis. Across disciplines and populations, applied behavior analysis improves people’s lives.
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A Quick Guide to Self-Management
If you want to consistently achieve personal goals, you must first learn to manage your behavior. The field of Applied Behavior Analysis has developed a set of procedures to help you do this. We call these strategies self-management.
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The Wisdom Factor eBook
Reducing the Control of Bias, Threat, and Fear while Building a Better World
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Deliberate Coaching 1st Edition
This powerful technique is based in scientific research on learning and performance, and works within any field to accelerate achievement and performance for all outcomes. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies have used it to realize fiscal growth and positive culture change, while school leaders have re-energized failing schools.
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Self- & Time-Management Planner Coil
Co-Author of Manage Your Time Like It's All You've Got!, Shauna V. Costello, MA, BCBA, received her BS and MA in the science of human behavior from Western Michigan University where she first discovered her passion for self- & time-management.
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