The aesthetics of intervention in defense of the esoteric

DeLeon, Iser G.

doi:10.1007/bf03392233

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“…The present review takes a general approach that one effective way of improving the generalization of treatment gains is through designing behavioral treatments with an understanding of the processes underlying those treatments (see also DeLeon, ; Hake, ; Lerman, ; Mace, ; Mace & Critchfield, ; Vollmer, ). With an understanding of how behavioral treatments impact learning and performance, researchers and clinicians can appreciate the potential range of interventions available to them.…”

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Renewed behavior produced by context change and its implications for treatment maintenance: A review

Podlesnik

Kelley

Jimenez‐Gomez

et al. 2017

Jnl of Applied Behav Analysis

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Behavioral treatment gains established in one setting do not always maintain in other settings. The present review examines the relevance of basic and translational research to understanding failures to maintain treatment gains across settings. Specifically, studies of the renewal effect examine how transitioning away from a treatment setting could evoke a return of undesirable behavior, rather than newly trained appropriate behavior. Studies of renewal typically arrange three phases, with a response trained and reinforced under a particular set of contextual stimuli in the first phase. Next, that response is extinguished, often under a different set of contextual stimuli. Finally, that response returns despite extinction remaining in effect upon returning to the original training context or transitioning to a novel context. Thus, removing the extinction context is sufficient to produce a recurrence of the response. The findings suggest treatment effects can become specific to the context in which the treatment was delivered. This literature offers promising methods for systematically assessing the factors contributing to treatment maintenance and improving generalization of treatment gains across contexts. Therefore, the present review suggests basic and translational research on renewal provides an empirical literature to bring greater conceptual systematization to understanding generalization and maintenance of behavioral treatment.

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Renewed behavior produced by context change and its implications for treatment maintenance: A review

Podlesnik

Kelley

Jimenez‐Gomez

et al. 2017

Jnl of Applied Behav Analysis

113

134

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“…In my view, too much of the recent debate about translational research and the future of behavior analysis has been political. For example, Critchfield's (2011) suggestion that effective translational research might involve the more frequent use of human participants, group designs, and statistical methods was met with vigorous defenses of the status quo from several commentators (Branch, 2011;DeLeon, 2011;Pilgrim, 2011). I expect this article will engender similar responses.…”

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Vyse

2013

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Although the field of behavior analysis provided the formative experiences and much of the profession training that have fueled a long and satisfying career, I now find that I am turning away from behavior-analytic research and teaching. My reasons for making this change stem from concerns about the costs and potential benefits of basic behavior-analytic research strategies and the isolation of behavior analysis from mainstream science. I offer some suggestions for strengthening the profession.

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“…In turn, aesthetics also informs behavior science research and practice. Behavioral experiments and interventions can be evaluated along aesthetic dimensions (DeLeon, 2011;Hineline, 2005;Pérez-Álvarez & García-Montes, 2006). This type of aesthetic evaluation may be the essence of social validity.…”

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Editorial: Reductionism and Holism in Behavior Science and Art

Hantula

2018

Perspect Behav Sci

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How should we handle complexity? In both science and in art, there is tension between the holist view that the properties of any entity or system cannot be understood or explained by its parts alone, and the reductionist view, which holds that an entity or system can be understood or explained by reducing it to its component parts (Graham, 2013). As Kandel (2016) points out, reductionism in science and art serve different, but analogous, purposes. In science, reductionism is used to solve complex problems; in art, reductionism is used to evoke new emotional responses in art consumers. Scientific reductionism is a process of reducing and then rebuilding that often leads to new insights that would not be found in either a solely reductionist or holist view. For example, Kandel began his quest to understand human learning and memory by studying the sea slug (aplysia), and the insights gleaned from intensive study of a simple organism guided and shaped his experimentation leading to brain science (Kandel, 1979). Artistic reductionism also leads to new insights. Through reductionism artists peel away unnecessary details and discover a work's essential features. Consumers of art experience new and often unique affective reactions to art when a visual or musical composition is stripped to its barest parts. 1 Kandel's book, Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, explores the commonalities between abstract art and brain science, arguing that both pursuits use reductionist methodologies in their search for higher level truths about human nature. One can adopt holism and accept complexity as an irreducible given, or embrace reductionism and work to disassemble and decompose complexity into simplicity. For

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The aesthetics of intervention in defense of the esoteric

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Renewed behavior produced by context change and its implications for treatment maintenance: A review

Renewed behavior produced by context change and its implications for treatment maintenance: A review

Changing Course

Editorial: Reductionism and Holism in Behavior Science and Art

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