Narrow down the results
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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Has Behavior Analysis Developed Tunnel Vision?
A Florida Tech grad student describes how behavior analysis is more than just working with autism
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COVID-19 Survival Guide for Caregivers
Don’t worry! It’s a quick read so you can get back to having one eye on your kids getting paint on your wood floors and one on your spreadsheets for work.
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Psychology Spectrum Disorder (PSD)
In a famous article entitled “Are Theories of Learning Necessary,” published in 1950, Skinner
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The Sun is Bright, and Sunscreen is Sticky: An Analysis of an Avoidance Scenario
As behavior analysts, we constantly try to determine why people do what they do. Often this is in a clinical context. Why does Johnny tantrum? Why does Jane flop during transitions?
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Psychopharmacology is Behavioral Pharmacology
An Interview With Tom Freeman, Senior VP of ABA Technologies, Inc.
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Framing Trauma: How do we apply behavior analysis to a mentalistic term?
A Perspective on Relational Frame Theory and TraumaTalks on TraumaTrigger Warning: talks about traumatic experiences
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5 Most Common Unethical Behavior in the Workplace
Have you ever seen unethical behavior? If you did, did you say something or wonder whether it was truly unethical? Learn more about unethical workplace behaviors here!
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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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Expand Your Knowledge and Continuing Education Repertoire!
As behavior analysts, we currently must renew our certification every two years by gaining a number of BACB CEUs—either 20 for BCaBAs or 32 for BCBAs. It is true that many professionals often get preoccupied with the day-to-day tasks in front of them: the tasks that have more immediate consequences. If they do not have time to attend conferences, they often end up trying to accrue most, or all, of their required CEUs immediately before the due date to renew their certification (fixed-interval pattern of responding, anyone?).
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Study Methods that Work: 8 Study Strategies for the BCBA® Exam - Tackling the Test Series
Part 4 Part 1: Intro to the Series
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The Heart of ABA: Science To The Rescue
by Jana Burtner
A dark history of failed institutions, eugenics, experimentation, and the triumph of human-centered science over bigotry and neglect.The historical and clinical content of this blog is based on work by Thomas Freeman, MS, BCBA, LBA-NY, LBA-MA, who has spent many years working and researching in th
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Q&A ABA in Spain with Dr. Javier Virues Ortega
Intro:¿Qué es el análisis aplicado de Conducta? ¿Es una ciencia independiente?
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