Professional practice of behavior analysis

career I have chosen to look into is being a behavior analyst. The essential information about this career is they study all sorts of behaviors. They assess individuals with behavioral problems, study changes. This career focuses on behaviors that can be observed and measured. They do have some research in their job where they would conduct studies of measure specific influences, such as the environment, on behavior or look for new ways to solve behavior problems in specific audiences, whether…

Opening Skinners Box In the world of Phycology and science B.F Skinner is very well known, as he is America’s neo-behaviorist a very well-known phycologist most famous for the Box he had invented. To many it’s a very astonishing box that has changed the way many phycologist view people and are able to learn more it’s opened a door to new studies and their way of thinking. To others it’s a simple infamous box. There are many perspectives and myths of B.F Skinner many that are untrue he was…

philosophy of human behavior. Specifically, Chomsky (1971) declares Skinner’s claims that science will prove humans are controlled by their environment and that autonomy is illusionary dissolve when put under scrutiny and analysis. He accuses Skinner of fitting the science to the belief rather than allowing science to discover the truth, whatever that truth may be. Chomsky also attempts to make clear his critique does not necessarily extend to other behaviorists or behavior science, but rather…

The investigation looked into different patterns of behaviour of a rooster, who had learnt to peck at three different coloured keys on schedules of reinforcement. The left red key related to the fixed interval (FI), the white middle key for the variable interval (VI) and the right green key for the differential reinforcement (DRL) for a total of 270 seconds, 90 seconds per key schedule. The importance of operant conditioning allowed for control over timing and when a positive reinforcement was…

Solution Focused Approach The solution focused approach falls under the wide branch of humanism “Its roots are in Systems Theory which posits that individuals who are in frequent contact will unavoidably influence each other.” (Lyons, Ford, & Arthur-Kelly, 2011, p. 25) Unlike many of the other humanist theories the Solution Focused approach does not focus on the individual as a problem but rather as a solution; the belief being that the problem comes from the individual’s interactions. To assess…

Bullying in the workplace refers to a situation where a targeted employee is subjected to negative acts by superiors and/or colleagues repeatedly over a period of time, and the confronted employee finds it difficult to take a stand against or cope with such negative acts (Hauge, Skogstad, & Einarsen, 2010; Loerbroks et al., 2015). One possible consequence of experiencing workplace bullying is depression. This paper will address depression within the context of bullying and will review types of…

Digital Rewards System The digital rewards system is another behavioral modification method used as a reward system to encourage better behaviors. The gist of this reward type is using technological means to monitor behaviors within the classroom (Howlin, 2015). Using technology in order to assess the progress of the students has both benefits and drawbacks. The first benefit is that it is easy to communicate with the parents. With programs such as Class Dojo or on the computer, it makes it…

radical behaviorism is his thinking that internal mental processes are irrelevant to behavioral outcomes. Skinner’s concept of behaviorism has the concept of tabula rasa, that a newborn baby’s brain is a blank slate, that the child has no organized behavior. He believed that all brains worked in the same way, that performing psychological experiments on a mouse’s brain would have the same effects as a human brain would. There are huge differences between the environments Skinner performed his…

toward oppositional and defiant behavior. These factors are: children with a natural and innate difficult temperament, parents who possess a low level of skill for disciplining and nurturing a child, and parents enduring an excessively high level of stress. Any one of these factors can put a child at risk for developing oppositional and defiant behaviors. However, as the risk factors in a child’s life increases, the likelihood of developing oppositional-defiant behaviors also increases. The…

Gina Green, PhD. is a prominent researcher in the area of applied behavior analysis (ABA). She received her doctoral degree in Psychology in 1986 from Utah State University. She is currently practicing and currently holds or has held significant positions for many groups, including being the President of ABAI. Most of the research I have read or have read about focuses on young children with autism. Dr. Green has written many articles and performed research in the area of stimulus equivalence…