Author: Chris Sawyer, M.Ed.,BCBA

  • The Function of Our Behaviors When we look at patterns of behavior, they can for the most part fall in to four categories: Access, Escape, Attention, and Sensory.  Why do we do what we do?  And why do we do it again? The study of the functions of human behavior, and the factors that make…

  • Hey readers, thanks for sticking around. As you may have realized my publications have dropped since my first one. Some, I took down to revise. Others never made it to the pages since work and research overwhelmed my daily schedule. I’ve come back with some better understanding on some topics, some of my own behavioral…

  • In behavioral science we like to look at things that are concrete and observable. Why do people respond to specific scenarios and stimuli in different ways? How do they differ from one another? How can we adapt what we present in ways that either increase or decrease a person’s responding? These are questions we can…