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Social Validity in the Late 20th and Early 21st Century
An extension of Kennedy’s work was published seven years later in 1999, by James Carr and colleagues. Their paper assessed the frequency of social-validity measures reported in the first 31 years of JABA. They analyzed the difference in trends of reporting social validity for experiments that had highly controlled analog settings versus more naturalistic and dynamic settings. The reason for doing so harkens back to Kennedy’s comments about the difference between basic and applied research.
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Social Validity: A Spark of Interest in Behavior Analysis
The Heart of ABA: The Evolution of Social-Validity Reporting in JABA Part 2 of 3In 1991, Schwartz and Baer publish a paper discussing the current state of social-validity measures in the field of ABA.
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The Inception of Social-Validity Reporting in JABA
In the 1978 seminal article Social Validity: The Case for Subjective Measurement or How Applied Behavior Analysis is Finding its Heart, Montrose M. Wolf discusses, among other things, the inception of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) in 1968. He writes that he was tasked with stating the purpose of the journal before it could go to press.
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What Does it Mean to Say Ours is “A Science of Behavior?"
Every behavior analyst (hopefully) has learned that ours is a science of behavior. We do not learn that ours is a science of the individual or a science of the person. Why is that? Are we not, however, concerned with people, you may ask? Are we not concerned with the human condition? Are we not humanists?
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9 Things You Didn’t Know About Generalization
Generalization is one of those areas in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) that is critical to the success of any child, student, and adult with autism or autism spectrum disorder. The concept of generalization is introduced in any college academic course when learning about how the scientific principles of behavior analysis apply to changes in human behavior.
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Generalization in Times of Crisis
… opportunity to improve our science through the assessment of generalization at home! Generalit y was defined by Stokes and Baer (1977) as “The occurrence of relevant behavior under different nontraining conditions (i.e., across subjects, settings, … opportunity to improve our science through the assessment of generalization at home! Generalit y was defined by Stokes and Baer (1977) as “The occurrence of relevant behavior under different nontraining conditions (i.e., across subjects, settings, …
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