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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Behavior Analysis’s Not-So-Secret Agent
Thursday, 23 January 2020
Guest Blogger: Andy Lattal Psychologically speaking, an agent is an entity responsible for a course of action. Some psychological agents with which many of us are familiar are “personality,” “conscience,” “self,” and “stress.” Each of these agents is said to be responsible for behavior: “she behaves that way because she has an outgoing personality” (the
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A Signal Experience
Thursday, 16 January 2020
Guest Blogger: Andy Lattal I recently found myself caught up in a great discussion with two colleagues, both of whom I highly respect, concerning a particular term that we see in many places in our science. The discussion centered around whether or not it is good Behavior-ese to describe a discriminative stimulus as signaling the availability of
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Immedium and Procrastinium: A Fable in Waiting
Tuesday, 07 January 2020
Guest Blogger: Andy Lattal Once upon a time, there were twins named Immedium and Procrastinium. As their names might suggest, the two approached tasks very differently. When a deadline was assigned, Procrastinium’s first reaction was to do something else, while Immedium started on it and soon got it done, PDQ, kazaam, what’s next? As
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Which Path is Best for You? BCBA 4th or 5th Edition
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
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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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Planning and Leading Effective Meetings
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Guest Blogger: Jackie Noto Effectively planning and leading meetings are beneficial for the success of employees and the company alike. Research has shown that productive meetings can have a significant return on investment for a company; however, few have received instruction on how best to plan or lead meetings. With the high levels of time
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The Analysis in Applied Behavior Analysis
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Are you an applied behavior analysts too focused on techniques? What does this suggest about being board certified? Spend time challenging your own practices and link back to the true meaning of analyst.
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Precision Teaching for Classroom Success
Friday, 05 April 2019
Blogger: Shauna Costello, MA, BCBA 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. Education
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Telling Our Story: BCBAs in Schools
Friday, 05 April 2019
Blogger: Adam Hockman BCBAs have an increasingly visible presence in public schools. While most work with special education populations, many still make their way into general education classrooms (inclusion, conducting FBAs). With improved funding for and awareness of behavior analytic services, each classroom becomes an avenue for impact. School-based BCBAs are not a new idea,
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