Some reflections on 25 years of the association for behavior analysis: Past, present, and future

Morris, Edward K.; Baer, Donald M.; Favell, Judith E.; Glenn, Sigrid S.; Hineline, Philip N.; Malott, Maria E.; Michael, Jack

doi:10.1007/bf03392025

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“…The relative merits of this distinction have been, and will continue to be, debated, but this debate is not the focus of the current discussion (cf., Morris et al 2001). What is important is whether the socalled basic and applied students would benefit from the instruction with this text, and the resounding answer is yes.…”

Section: Audience Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural Science and Learning: A Review of Behavior Analysis and Learning (5th Edition)

Weaver

2014

BEHAV ANALYST

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Section: Audience Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural Science and Learning: A Review of Behavior Analysis and Learning (5th Edition)

Weaver

2014

BEHAV ANALYST

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“…Other behavior-analytic associations and journals were to be created, such as the Midwest Association for Behavior Analysis (MABA) in 1974, which would become the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA). Its respective journal, The Behavior Analyst (TBA), was founded in 1978 (Morris et al, 2001).…”

Section: Parallel Historiesmentioning

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On Behaviorism in the Cognitive Revolution: Myth and Reactions

Watrin

Darwich

2012

Review of General Psychology

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For a long time, psychology was a discipline devoted to the study of mind. Behaviorism represented a rupture in that tradition, redefining psychology as the study of behavior. The rupture, however, would not have been everlasting. When the cognitive revolution broke out in the 1950s, the study of mental life was renewed in the form of cognitivism. Since then, it is usually told that the cognitive revolution displaced behaviorism, causing the latter's decline or even its death. Nonetheless, at that same time, behaviorism saw the growth of behavior analysis, which remained until today as a living behaviorist field. This article analyzes how behaviorism is depicted in the story of the cognitive revolution, as well as some of the reactions that portrayal generated within behavior analysis. It is argued that the story of the cognitive revolution affirms the importance of cognitivism and consolidates its historical identity but fosters the movement at the expense of behaviorism's depiction. At the same time, behavior analysts’ reactions often contradict the revolution's story and, consequently, offer an alternative but disarticulated version of history. As a result, each side tells a different story, and the case would be illustrative of how such kind of stories can favor one position while distorting some notions.

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“…(See Peterson (1978); Morris, et al (2001); Malott et al 2002). Again unique circumstances and unique repertoires of key individuals combined to result in the formation of the Association.…”

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Targets of Intervention in Cultural and Behavioral Change

Malott¹,

Glenn

2006

Behav. Soc. Iss.

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Behavior analysts implement different type of interventions in their efforts to bring about cultural change. In this article, we identify basic elements of interventions having such goals: the number of people whose behavior contributes to the product of interest, the variety of response topographies that help to generate the product, the intervention locus of change, and the selection contingencies involved in bringing about that change. Based on these elements, we distinguish interventions that target selection contingencies from those that do not; and we distinguish those selection contingencies where the locus of change is individual repertoires (operant contingencies and macrocontingencies) from those where the locus of change is cohesive cultural entities (metacontingencies). We illustrate each type of intervention with examples from the behavior analytic literature and discuss some conceptual, practical and methodological implications.

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Some reflections on 25 years of the association for behavior analysis: Past, present, and future

Cited by 10 publications

References 51 publications

Natural Science and Learning: A Review of Behavior Analysis and Learning (5th Edition)

Natural Science and Learning: A Review of Behavior Analysis and Learning (5th Edition)

On Behaviorism in the Cognitive Revolution: Myth and Reactions

Targets of Intervention in Cultural and Behavioral Change

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