Behavioral Inquiry
Where modern topics meet behavioral research
Category: Applied Behavior Analysis
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Recap time! Do you remember what a reinforcer or reinforcement is? Reinforcement is the process by which a consequence (reinforcer) strengthens the rate of a behavior, in the same or similar context in the future. Learning through success. [1] Do you also remember the previous subject we were reviewing called “Belongingness” by Thorndike? Belongingness was…
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“Belongingness” in Behavioral Theory First, some context! When we look at behavioral psychology, a great deal of it came up as a philosophical model in the late 19th/early 20th century, which gained traction for the following 60 or so years. One of these original scientists/psychologists who contributed was named Edward Thorndike (1847-1949), who had a…
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Applied Behavior Analysis can use a lot of jargon and technical terms for things we see day to day, and it’s sometimes necessary to use extra words to put distinct meanings to phenomena we see and study. It’s also important to distinguish between them. ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) terminology can be tricky. Today I had…
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Reinforcement or reward? Have you ever heard the term reinforcement (in the context of learning or psychology) and wondered what it might mean? Reinforcement, as was originally studied, was a term that came about in behavioral psychology to describe the phenomenon of a consequence event strengthening the behavior that came before it, and increasing the…
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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…
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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…
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