Behavioral Inquiry
Where modern topics meet behavioral research
Category: Applied Behavior Analysis
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Imagine for a moment, the process of therapy. It is a give and take where the participant wants change to occur, both in themselves, and in how they interact in the world. Something in the past has not gone as right as they’d like, and this process is meant to help them explore a better…
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No matter what you do, you’ll often find yourself in a position to either teach a skill or train someone in a proficiency you have. In some cases, many times. One of the most necessary parts in my line of work is data collection on human behavior and performance. I’ve met hundreds of professionals and…
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It’s time to go back into the annals, to a time when applied behavior analysis, a budding biological and philosophical branch of psychology and medicine, was in its relative youth. A time when the exploration of behavior was catching on at a fever pitch, and the whole scope of life on earth could be put…
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Failure is a tough topic to bring up but a necessary one. When we are in it, it’s all we can think about. When we are past it, we often do not want any further reminders of it. Failure, behaviorally, and psychologically, is a part of everything we do as a variable, and factors in…
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This is a topic that they do not teach in the graduate courses in behavior analysis. It rarely makes it into the purview of supervisory topics for clinicians who are used to working with much more language and basic functional living skills like the ABBLS-R, VBMAPP, or PEAK assessments, but it is a topic that…
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“The danger of the misuse of power is possibly greater than ever. It is not allayed by disguising the facts. We cannot make wise decisions if we continue to pretend that human behavior is not controlled, or if we refuse to engage in control when valuable results might be forthcoming. Such measures weaken only ourselves,…
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There are important assumptions, or attitudes of science, which ground scientific study across all disciplines; Determinism, Empiricism, Experimentation, Replication, Parsimony, and Philosophic Doubt. The last one holds a key role in how we deal with the information we gain from science, and what we do with it in the future. Philosophic Doubt is the attitude…
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How we use language in behavioral science and psychology is important. If you’ve ever studied psychology, or behaviorism specifically, have you ever asked? “Why do we have to use observable terms for behavior?” “Why do we define things in operationally and observational terms?” These are also the questions that “Logical Behaviorism” was chiefly concerned with.…
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“Token Economies”- two words springing up at Blockchain and Cryptocurrency summits and conferences with increasing regularity. Token Economies have been used by behavioral scientists and practitioners for decades, but recently they have taken off in the field of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency technologies. Both applications use the term “Token Economy” interchangeably. In technology conferences and summits,…
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Some hold firm to the idea that the division between behaviorism and cognitivism is a vast divide; where there is a winning theory and a losing theory. You’ll hear them- “Behaviorism died decades ago!” and “Thoughts about thoughts? That’s just unprovable mentalism!” shouted from entrenched believers until they are blue in the face. There may…
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