A Cute Redo of an Old Skinner Box Joke

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Determinism And Freedom

This is a presentation on Determinism and freedom.

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Determinism

 

This is a presentation about determinism.

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Working to Stay Clean

 Tucked quietly inside Bayview's oldest building is a unique drug treatment program that's breaking the cycle of addiction and poverty.

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Examples of Students Behavior Analytic Biographies

A search for my “Jewish Mother”; a voyage that all must attempt. In this quest lies the opportunity to justify your odd, obsessive- compulsive tendencies and understand your parents’ neurotic and unyielding ways. I begin by examining both of my parents. Yes, there are definitely signs of the “Jewish Mother Syndrome.” But what is the etiology of this fascinating syndrome? Ah, yes! That would be Grandma Jenio and Grandpa Rau.

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Interview with Richard Malott (translated into Spanish by Javier Virués)

Javier Virués : ¿Cuales son tus intereses principales en el campo del análisis de conducta? Richard Malott: Estoy interesado en el análisis de conducta en general, en el análisis teórico de la conducta, en el análisis aplicado de la conducta, en aplicaciones del análisis conductual al campo de la gestión de la conducta organizacional y todo lo implicado en gestión del rendimiento organizacional y en habilidades de planificación o manejo personal

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Conceptual Behavior Analysis

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by lust for the straight semi-log transform, drilling ever deeper into the void of free-operant chaos, who floating across everyday life, attempted to perfectly fit the new king: autistic child, striking worker, deciding executive, forcing the cool babe of conceptual analysis down the drain with the hypothetico-deductive bath water of mentalism, eager to justify, confusing analog with homologue, functional equivalent with fundamental equivalent, justifying the Skinner box in terms of applications, the applications in terms of the Skinner box.

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Saving the World with Behavioral Comunitarianism: Los Horcones

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, four hours south of the boarder. Population 600,000. And they're all Mexican. And not one of them Mexicans has the decency to speak English. Six P.M. and darks coming fast. Strangers in a strange land. An RV park's supposed to be around here somewhere. But so is Los Horcones

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A Commentary on Development, SDs, and EOs

Here’s the problem with operational redefinitions of mentalistic and reified terms: The original meaning of those terms still controls most of the behavior of most of the users, in spite of the operational redefinition. For example, psychologists can operationally redefine intelligence as what’s measured on an intelligence test as often and as loudly as they want; but within 10 seconds of that definition, the audience and even the psychologists themselves are responding as if intelligence were an innate, inner cause of intelligent behavior and, not incidentally, of their own personal success.

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In Search of Cumulative-Hierarchical Learning

Yes, we can say, CRF is really FR 1 (we can say, continuous reinforcement is really fixed ratio reinforcement where the ratio of response per reinforcer is 1 to 1). But if such labeling is not a reduction to absurdity, it’s at least a reduction to triviality. Continuous reinforcement shares none of the properties of fixed ratio reinforcement, such as the pause after reinforcement followed by the rapid acceleration of responding up to a hell-bent-for-leather, maximum rate.

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Operant Learning and Selectionism: Risks and Benefits of Seeking Interdisciplinary Parallels

Seeking parallels among disciplines can have both risks and benefits. Finding parallels may be a vacuous exercise in categorization, generating no new insights. And pointing to analogous functions may cause us to treat them as homologous. Hull, Langman, and Glenn, (2001) have provided a basis for the generation of insights in different selectionist areas, without confusing analogy with homology.

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The Johnson and Malott Dialogue on Sexuality

This is based on Kent Johnson’s review of Chapter 26 in Elementary Principles of Behavior, 4th Edition. Ok, so you propose a basic, simple behavior analytic model that one’s sexual orientation is a function of one’s particular social reinforcement history.

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Comments on the Dissemination of Behavioral Technology

 A concern about dissemination of behavioral technology results from a concern about the limited impact of behavior analysis. Before looking at the impact of behavior analysis on the world of action, let us first look at its impact on the world of ideas, if you will pardon my dualism. It would be of interest to get a historical perspective on how much impact behavior analysis has had. In doing so, we should keep in mind its recent emergence, its small number of participants, and the small amount of resources that have been devoted to it.

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A History of the Association for Behavior Analysis

On October 5, 2002, a few members of ABA, faculty and staff of the Western Michigan University Psychology Department, and ABA staff, gathered together at 1219 South Park Street in Kalamazoo, MI to celebrate the inauguration of new office space for the Association. President Michael Perone performed the ceremonial cutting of the ribbon, which was followed by a reception in the new building.

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Are Women, People of Color, Asians, and Southern Europeans Inherently Inferior To North-European Males? - A History of Biological Determinism - A Cultural, Spiritual, and Intellectual Disgrace

Biological determinism is the view that biological or even genetic factors are the main or even the sole cause of important behavioral differences between people, even when those behavioral differences involve complex behavior-environment interactions.

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