ABA on Call

Creativity has a long history in psychology and definitions and explanations for the occurrence of creative behavior has great variability. Behavior analysis has approached creativity like any other behavior. First, creative behavior is defined as novel behavior. Second, the verbal community labels what is and what is not creative. Understanding the sources of control leads to some behaviors being labeled creative while others not. The current event discusses creativity from a behavioral perspective and discusses studies from Skinner to Pryor that showcase creative behavior. To earn CEUs for listening, click here, log in or sign up, pay the CEU fee, + take the attendance verification to generate your certificate! Don't forget to subscribe and follow and leave us a rating and review

Behavioral fluency is a concept that has appeared with increasing frequency across the behavioral literature. Behavioral fluency is the term used to describe behavior that reach a quantitative frequency range and show behavioral effects such as maintenance, and generalization. Frequency building is a procedure that results in behavioral fluency. Frequency building differs from practice in its implementation and evaluation. The podcast describes frequency building and behavioral fluency in the context of behavior analysis and practice. To earn CEUs for listening, click here, log in or sign up, pay the CEU fee, + take the attendance verification to generate your certificate! Don't forget to subscribe and follow and leave us a rating and review

Behavior analysis has used within groups design as the means for establishing functional relations and communicating scientific findings in the lab and journals. Another popular method for analyzing behavior is between groups design. The two different approaches are sometimes described as polar opposites yet each can complement one another. The different purposes and limits of each method are described and contrasted. To earn CEUs for listening, click here, log in or sign up, pay the CEU fee, + take the attendance verification to generate your certificate! Don't forget to subscribe and follow and leave us a rating and review

Skinner long championed private events and called the ultimate understanding of them the heart of radical behaviorism. Yet private events are not well understood and sometimes viewed as a subject outside the possibility of scientific study. This current presentation shows how private events, also called inner behavior, can be studied and fits within the radical behaviorism framework. To earn CEUs for listening, click here, log in or sign up, pay the CEU fee, + take the attendance verification to generate your certificate! Don't forget to subscribe and follow and leave us a rating and review

The science of behavior has a long distinguished history not only providing evidence of environment-behavior relations, but also discussing the subsequent implications. One of the fundamental underpinnings of behavior analysis is that behavior determined. Therefore, the concept of free will is incompatible with the evidence and theory of why organisms behave. In this episode of ABA on Call, we discuss free will and determinism and how each is regarded within behavior analysis. To earn CEUs for listening, click here, log in or sign up, pay the CEU fee, + take the attendance verification to generate your certificate! Don't forget to subscribe and follow and leave us a rating and review

What did Skinner think of education in America? He was not impressed! In fact, he saw many problems that could be solved by the science of behavior. Join us for a deep dive into one of Skinner's important publications. For more "ABA on Call" don't forget to subscribe and follow CentralReach on Facebook, Twitter (@CentralReach), Instagram (@centralreach_) and LinkedIn. Leave us a rating and review to support our show!

You may have heard, "If teaching were talking, everyone could do it!" The "stages of learning" offer an organizing scheme to show learning is complex and not just the presentation of information. Join our hosts for an in-depth discussion about how learning stages help behavior analysts conceptualize, plan, and implement instructional techniques. For more "ABA on Call" don't forget to subscribe and follow CentralReach on Facebook, Twitter (@CentralReach), Instagram (@centralreach_) and LinkedIn. Leave us a rating and review to support our show!

2020: A Year in Review. Every year has its memories, but 2020 will go down as a year of infamy. Our hosts review three significant impacts on the field of behavior analysis, the pandemic being one of them. Our hosts also discuss the passing of three great contributors to ABA, the episode ending with some big moves at the BACB! For more "ABA on Call" don't forget to subscribe and follow CentralReach on Facebook, Twitter (@CentralReach), Instagram (@centralreach_) and LinkedIn. Leave us a rating and review to support our show!

ABA and Visual Analysis. We all do it, but do we do it right? ABA on Call dives into visual analysis and explores the chapter that started it all. What is visual analysis? How exactly should we do it? And what does it entail? Join us for all of these answers and more! For more "ABA on Call" don't forget to subscribe and follow CentralReach on Facebook, Twitter (@CentralReach), Instagram (@centralreach_) and LinkedIn. Leave us a rating and review to support our show!

On this episode, ABA on Call brings awareness to important issue: ableism. Special guest Cassi Breaux, M.A., M.S., BCBA, LBA helps us understand what ableism is and how to identify it. The ABA on Call crew also discusses why we should care about ableism -- and what behavior analysts can do to start addressing it. Special guest Cassi Breaux is a CR Institute™ content creator and CentralReach's Manager of Educational Content Development. She has been in the behavior field for more than 15 years, most notably as a special education teacher and behavior specialist for NYC public schools, a tech and BCBA in private clinics, and a private practice owner. Her goal is to focus on implicit bias reflection behaviors, both in herself and others, and strives to create education spaces that respect both gender and sexual diversity and minimize the implicit ableism in ABA. Listen to the full episode above! For more "ABA on Call," follow CentralReach on Facebook, Twitter (@CentralReach), Instagram (@centralreach_) and LinkedIn, and don't forget to subscribe!