Rules Rule, or Do They?
Tuesday, 04 February 2020
Guest Blogger: Andy Lattal Rules are everywhere, from the Ten Commandments to those whose violations bring us into traffic court. It is no surprise that rule-governed behavior occupies such a prominent place in behavior-analytic theory. One perspective, on which there is no universal agreement, is that rules function as discriminative stimuli, setting the occasion for
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Florida Institute of Technology BACB Certification: Which Path Should You Choose?
Friday, 08 November 2019
Blogger: Kristin Myers-Kemp, ABA Online, College of Psychology & Liberal Arts, Florida Tech, Executive Vice President of ABA Technologies, Inc. There are a variety of paths that individuals take to enter the field of behavior analysis. A few take a direct route by entering a graduate program in behavior analysis after undergrad. Still, many pursue
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ABA Tech and Florida Tech Launches the 2nd Edition RBT Course
Thursday, 01 August 2019
Blogger: Adam Hockman On July 23, 2019, ABA Technologies, Inc., and Florida Tech launched RBT Essentials 2nd Edition, a completely reworked and updated 40-hour training program. This “on-demand” course allows students to learn the required RBT content while maintaining their busy work lives. In this blog, learn more about some of these changes and how
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Psychopharmacology is Behavioral Pharmacology
Friday, 26 July 2019
Tom Freeman is interviewed in this new blog titled, 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲. Freeman discusses recent increases in the diagnosis of ADD and ADHD, especially in boys under the age of 17, and the rampant use of medication to treat these individuals.
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Translating the Science of Behavior Analysis
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
ABA is the abbreviation for Applied Behavior Analysis, the science that studies human behavior using evidenced-based or proven, techniques. Decades of ABA research have shown that the techniques that come from the science of behavior analysis can help all kinds of people with different behavior or developmental problems. The most well-known and researched use of
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