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| Int'l Paper - Analisis del Comportamiento y Analisis de la Conducta: Two Different Behavior Analyses |
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 |
| 11:00 AM–11:50 AM |
| Private Dining Room 5 (3rd floor) |
| Area: PRA |
| Chair: Mapy Chavez-Brown (Teachers College, Columbia University) |
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| Analisis del Comportamiento y Analisis de la Conducta: Two Different Behavior Analyses |
| Domain: Applied Research |
| R. DOUGLAS GREER (Teachers College, Columbia University) |
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| Abstract: Behavior analysts remain a happy few, as Skinner said in earlier days of ABA. We are even a few more, as we strive to become truly international. There are, however, two distinctive foci that have been developed in our science and these, I argue, are natural, but important distinctions, in our scientific inquires and applications. The two are not basic verses applied, or difference in foci across geographical-cultural boundaries; these are simple artificial divisions. The two behavior analyses are (a) a science of the environmental controls of existing operants and (b) a science of the environmental sources for the formation of operants and higher order operants. The sources for behaving well and acquiring repertoires require distinctions in practice and application. International collaboration gave rise to exciting new findings in the latter effort. |
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