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Behavior in Translation
Have you ever heard a paper presented at a conference or elsewhere about research with rats or pigeons, and it seems like the findings might be helpful in working with your clients? But then you wonder, is there really a connection between the two?
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Operant Innovations 013 | OBM Certificate: Your Questions Answered | Ryan Curran & Dr. Allison King
So you have questions about training in OBM? We have heard your questions and Ryan Curran and Dr. Allison King are here to answer those! Ryan and Allison will also be describing the current OBM Applied course and how the [BRAND NEW] OBM Specialist Certificate has taken your feedback and created this new certificate program!
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Happiness
Happiness pervades modern life. It is a major topic of talk-show interviews, best-selling books, psychotherapeutic interactions, everyday gossip (“How can she really be happy with him?”), and personal ruminations. Poets, cartoonists, and novelists have done as good a job as psychologists in understanding it. I personally have always preferred Charles Shultz’s (the creator of the comic strip “Peanuts”) rather structural definition of happiness as “a warm puppy.”
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Operant Innovations 011 | 3 Quick Leadership Tips | Janis Allen
Janis Allen answers three burning questions regarding leadership skills (1) what do people think when they see you coming, (2) is there a recognition blackhole, and (3) should we use the sandwich method?
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The Lift 007 | Structured Problem Solving Skills
This podcast episode describes the importance of teaching supervisees to take a structured problem-solving approach. The roles of negative reinforcement and self-control in problem identification and problem-solving are discussed. The podcast describes a structured 5 step process for problem solving and strategies for maximizing your success at each step.
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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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Arranging Reinforcement Systems in Applied Settings Part 2
“A lot of people get queasy when thinking about this; we’re considering an individual with an established set of preferences and related utility for reinforcers associated with those preferences, and then we want to start manipulating those preferences. Well, some people think that’s not a good idea—preferences are what preferences are.”
$65.00
Translational Research: Matching Theory and Its Applications
Translational research typically is understood as the line of research that tries to take findings from basic research and then translates its applications in the applied field of behavior analysis. However, translational research can also take socially significant interests from the applied field and instigate research in the basic field. Translational research helped show that findings from non-human animal research could generalize to humans as well as create behavioral technology.
$39.00
Language of Emotions
One of the most essential skills children are taught regarding their verbal behavior is communicating their emotions. It may seem that when we first teach an emotion and ways to express it, the client may simply go through the motions. We must take advantage of the contingencies that occur naturally as well as the know-how to create opportunities to teach emotions.
$39.00
Helping Students with ASD Succeed in General Education Classrooms
“More than 50% of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder spend at least 2 days per week in regular classrooms. Today, 1 in 3 students with Autism Spectrum Disorder are included in the regular classroom for the entire day.”
William L. Heward, EdD, BCBA-D
$26.00
What’s Free About the Free Operant?
There is another question to be answered before considering the question in the title of this commentary: “What is a free operant, anyway?” It is an expression that sometimes appears in talks and articles, but it isn’t as common
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Getting to Know Children in Foster Care
“I believe completely that Applied Behavior Analysis is and has been a huge influence in the child welfare arena for many years in the state of Florida. Our positive and productive gains are promising, and we need to compel more behavior analyst clinicians to go out there and replicate this work nationwide.”
Karin Torsiello, MS, BCBA
$32.50
University Series 010 | Sacramento State
Join Operant Innovations as they talk with Dr. Megan Heinicke and Dr. Caio Miguel about the undergraduate and graduate degrees at CSU - Sacramento State.
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Operant Innovations 012 | Landing a Job Outside of Clinical Behavior Analysis | Reggie Seecharan
We often see the question, "What can you do with a behavior analysis degree outside of clinical work?" Well, the short answer is... A LOT! Join Reggie Seecharan, a recent graduate of Florida Institute of Technology, as he speaks about landing an internship at NASA and then a job at Amazon.
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Celebrating Positive Deviance at Work: What COVID-19 can Teach Us
We will need to develop many skills having to do with persistence, flexibility, creativity, and dealing with the unexpected.
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