... You know, I had my kids before I was involved in behavior analysis and I can only say "If I'd known then what I know now..."!!! My older son had and has...
Totally! I have a book written in the UK called The Fanatics: A Behavioural Approach to Political Violence by Maxwell Taylor. You might find it interesting...
... So true!! Our govt. sits over here calculating things out on paper and in computer programs, more to impress other Americans than to implement any real...
The poisoned cue is a new concept that was originally observed and commented on by Karen Pryor. Murray Sidman saw the research this week and said that he...
... He may still be afraid of you. But you probably also have other things going on. Why would the dogs have any positive feelings about a guy they see one...
Thanks for asking, Conny! It went so great. I'm very excited. What a nice man! His wife is a doll, too. They were blown away by the research ORCA is doing-...
Did you get your crash course on RFT? I know the website has an online tutorial that Eric Fox made (he's at WMU now). Have you tried that? I've finished it,...
yea, I did that tutorial a while back, I think its a really good tutorial, well put together. Also I think that RFT is necessary beyond Skinner's analysis to ...
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First I need to find out how to how to do a reference. One of my references is from an online source that has no author listed because it's from a government...
Hmm, so the response dimension that has changed is that instead of appearing happy and coming to the trainer the dogs appeared unhappy with sagging body...
Yeah- I agree. Good news- I found out how to cite the non-authored article. I feel relieved about that to a degree that seems quite out of proportion to the...
Well I am not so sure that is true, I am by no means an expert, but they talk alot about derived relational responding. For instance if a person is exposed to...
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Oh, my no- I'm still writing it! I plan to defend the week after ABA- the last week in May or the first week in June. Kellie www.animalbehavioranswers.com ...
... So how is that different from equivalence? It seems we already have an explanation for that, and IMO it's less expository. ... That's where I see the...
Yes, that was the topographical effect, but the truly interesting stuff was how that affect was influenced by the Sd even after no more gear was on the dogs...
But can't that all also be explained by generalization and faulty rule control? ~Conny ... but ... if ... derived ... like ... told ... there ... to ... my ......
I'm still going through it all, and trying to wrap my head around everything. I do see how it is ultimately a behaviorist point of view, specifically when they...
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I agree with you, Conny! I think Skinner just didn't get to everything... After all it took some 20 years to write Verbal Behavior, and it's already as dense...
Malott's theoretical analysis of "rules that are easy to follow" vs. "rules that are hard to follow". A lot of what we consider poor self-management is due to...
OK, what about how individuals can learn relationships between two stimuli based upon their interactions with different stimuli? I can be told of a few...
I demand that you guys agree with me or I will kock you out of the group!!! Uniformity of opinion is paramount here, dammit! Well back to work now -- In...
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HA HA!! I wish that would work on the Click-L group-- some of them have absolutely no senses of humor, period. I try to lighten things up with a joke and they...
Could it be a generalization though? Lizards look like snakes, so then a fear of lizards as well, and then a fear of anything slimy or scaly or green: lizards,...