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- William S. Verplanck
- Dr. Verplank has spent 50 years doing behavior analysis, research, and a little psychophysics, in the lab and in the real world.
- Animal Reinforcement Forum (ARF) - Listserv for the discussion of behavioral principles as they are applied to the training and modification of animal behavior. Anyone interested in discussing or learning how behavior analysis is used to train animals is encouraged to join.
- Animal Trainer's Guide to Operant Conditioning - Describes the science and terminology of operant conditioning and how it can be used in animal training. Explores the use of conditioned reinforcers and "clicker training", too.
- Applied Behavior Analysis Resources for Recovery from Autism/PDD/Hyperlexia - Resources for behavioral intervention for autism: research, professionals, schools, support groups, curriculum materials, and special education and legal resources.
- B. F. Skinner Biography - Brief overview of his life and work.
- Behavior Analysis (Tom Donaldson) - Tom's home page shows that a career in behavior analysis can get sidetracked by those seductive computers found in the behavior lab. But he's maintained an excellent webpage that links to Internet resources on behavior analysis.
- Behavior Analysts, Inc. - Behavior Analysts, Inc., seeks to provide high-quality, effective interventions for children with developmental disabilities, and to provide training to other professionals in the delivery of these services.
- Behavioral Science Technology, Inc - Resource for people interested in behavioral safety, injury prevention, behavior-based quality and other applications of behavioral technology. News, results data, articles, discussion groups and listings of seminars and BST products.
- Behaviorism Tutorial: Athabasca University - Free online introductory tutorial on Behaviorism. Focuses on the distinction between methodological and radical behaviourism. Fun quiz at end.
- Behaviorists For Social Responsibility - Contingencies shape and maintain behavior that affects individual choices, social justice, and environmental protection. The search for contingencies that enhance these outcomes, instead of ignoring them, is a concern of this site.
- Behaviour Analysis Resources (Athabasca University) - Annotated list of Behavior Analysis resources maintained by "Canada's Open University", Athabasca University.
- Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies - Rich set of resources for research, professional advancement, and applications to education, industry, and special populations. Sections on aging, autism, parenting, behavioral safety, organizational behavior, pets and animals, and verbal behavior.
- Click-l - Companion website to the click-l mailing list. Clicker Training, based on Karen Pryor's book, "Don't Shoot the Dog", is about using a bridge (secondary reinforcer) to shape behavior. Check out "Gems" section in particular.
- Comprehensive Application of Behavioral Analysis to Schooling - This systems approach to schooling is a registered trademark developed and held by Dr. R. Douglas Greer of Columbia University Teachers College. The site provides information about a behavioral model of schooling that draws on the experimental and applied branches of the science of behavior. Information about the model and the schools offering it are available here.
- Glossary of Terms for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior - Glossary of basic terms of Behavior Analysis, plus definitional quotations from classic works.
- Institute for Applied Behavior Analysis - IABA is an organization that advances the use of non-aversive, person-centered procedures in the field of challenging behavior. This site offers a number of publications for professionals as resources and guides to applying positive reinforcement procedures to facilitate behavior change.
- Joint Control Home page - Abstracts of published articles and presented papers on joint control. Highly technical. Application of Skinner's concepts of verbal behavior to a rigorous, behavioral description of those human performances commonly ascribed to hypothesized psychological processes of perception, cognition, memory, problem solving, and goal orientation.
- The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis - This website is a direct link to the highly recognized professional research journal with online abstracts, and research submission information.
- Links of interest to behavior analysts - Great annotated list of links to journals, organizations, and websites of interest to behavior analysts.
- Los Horcones: A Walden Two community - A Walden Two community (after the book by Fred Skinner) founded in 1973. Los Horcones is an experimental culture. It functions as a social laboratory where cultural practices or macrocontingencies are scientifically studied from a behavioral analytic perspective.
- Performance Management - General information on and description of performance management, plus articles, newsletter, book reviews, links to international performance management consultancies.
- Positive Reinforcement: A Self-Instructional Exercise - Online tutorial on positive reinforcement. Also serves as an example of the self-instructional "distance learning" exercises used in many Athabasca University (Canada) courses.
- Reinforcing Behaviour Therapy - Article written "to strip the confusion surrounding behaviour therapy and to explain its scientific base." Not entirely based on science.
- Some Internet Resources in Behavior Analysis - Very click-able. Not primarily about behavior analysis, but some stuff.
- Tribute to B. F. Skinner - Streaming audio of tributes to and interviews of this noted psychologist.
- USF Behavior Analysis home page - University of South Florida's programs; resources in behavior analysis.
- 57 Years of Searching Among Behaviorisms: A Memoir - Paper given by Verplanck on his scientific career in various sorts of behavior analysis. Really interesting history.
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