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https://read.qxmd.com/read/31978209/an-internal-and-critical-review-of-the-peak-relational-training-system-for-children-with-autism-and-related-intellectual-disabilities-2014-2017
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mark R Dixon, Jordan Belisle, Autumn McKeel, Seth Whiting, Ryan Speelman, Jacob H Daar, Kyle Rowsey
The PEAK Relational Training System was designed as an assessment instrument and treatment protocol for addressing language and cognitive deficits in children with autism. PEAK contains four comprehensive training modules: Direct Training and Generalization emphasize a contingency-based framework of language development, and Equivalence and Transformation emphasize an approach to language development consistent with Relational Frame Theory. The present paper provides a comprehensive and critical review of peer-reviewed publications based on the entirety PEAK system through April, 2017...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976978/the-use-of-observational-technology-to-study-in-store-behavior-consumer-choice-video-surveillance-and-retail-analytics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nils Magne Larsen, Valdimar Sigurdsson, Jørgen Breivik
The store is the main laboratory for in-store experimental analysis. This article provides an introduction to a research program aimed at improving research practices in this laboratory, particularly emphasizing the importance of behavioral data and the new opportunities that technology offers. This complex modern-day Skinner box has sets of well-studied stimuli-behavior interactions that constantly adapt to the latest economic environment and as such constantly stretch the boundaries of behavioral analytic theory...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976976/a-special-issue-of-the-behavior-analyst-perspectives-on-behavior-science-learning-no-brain-required
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(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976972/behavioral-economics-in-consumer-behavior-analysis
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EDITORIAL
Gordon R Foxall
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976971/editorial-retrospections-prospections-and-new-paths-for-behavioral-science
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EDITORIAL
Donald A Hantula
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976964/a-history-of-the-professional-credentialing-of-applied-behavior-analysts
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
James M Johnston, James E Carr, Fae H Mellichamp
The need for a credible professional credential became apparent early in the history of applied behavior analysis. The first efforts to develop a system that identified behavior-analytic practitioners having a specified level of expertise in the profession began in the early 1970s. Over the years, a number of credentialing initiatives were developed in an effort to meet the profession's growing needs for a means of establishing a meaningful professional identity. This article reviews the evolution of these initiatives, culminating with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board and the more recent movement toward state licensure...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976963/requiem-for-the-dead-man-test
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EDITORIAL
Thomas S Critchfield
A popular measurement heuristic called the "Dead Man Test" predicts that behavior will be absent in vitality-challenged individuals. Unfortunately, the core idea behind the Test lacks empirical support, is hopelessly vague on several counts, and may be at odds with key aspects of behavior theory. This raises serious concerns about whether the Test should continue to be employed as a guide to behavioral measurement.
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976962/contributions-of-behavior-analysis-to-behavioral-economics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elise Frølich Furrebøe, Ingunn Sandaker
This article discusses behavior analysis' contribution to behavioral economics. Nobel Laureate Award winner Herbert Simon described the science of economics in an evolutionary context in A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice . Without claiming any relation between the two publications, it was published two years after B.F. Skinner's Science and Human Behavior. While popular behavioral economics continues the critique of Homo Economicus, the eagerness to prove that man is not rational carries the risk of substituting one mentalistic explanation for another...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976959/swan-song
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EDITORIAL
Donald Hantula, Thomas S Critchfield, Erin Rasmussen
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976958/temporal-discounting-and-marketing-variables-effects-of-product-prices-and-brand-informational-reinforcement
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jorge M Oliveira-Castro, Rafaela S Marques
By integrating the temporal discounting perspective, according to which the value of rewards is progressively discounted as a function of delay, and the Behavioral Perspective Model (BPM), according to which the purchase of products can produce utilitarian (directly obtained from use) and informational (social, mediated by others) reinforcing and punitive consequences, the present research investigated: 1) if temporal discounting would be better described by an exponential or a hyperbolic function; 2) if differently priced products would differ with respect to temporal discounting rates; and 3) if brands offering different levels of informational reinforcement would differ with respect to temporal discounting rates...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976948/building-consumer-understanding-by-utilizing-a-bayesian-hierarchical-structure-within-the-behavioral-perspective-model
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrew Rogers, Gordon R Foxall, Peter H Morgan
This study further develops the theoretical and empirical literature on the Behavioral Perspective Model (BPM) in three ways through an empirical analysis of the Great Britain (GB) biscuit category. First, following a literature review and a category analysis, a more complex model is constructed using the BPM structure and then testing the hypothesis uncovered. Second, the structure of the data theoretically calls for a hierarchical structure of the model, and hence, this is introduced into the BPM framework and is compared to a non-hierarchical structure of the same model...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976946/neural-networks-and-consumer-behavior-neural-models-logistic-regression-and-the-behavioral-perspective-model
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Max N Greene, Peter H Morgan, Gordon R Foxall
This paper investigates the ability of connectionist models to explain consumer behavior, focusing on the feedforward neural network model, and explores the possibility of expanding the theoretical framework of the Behavioral Perspective Model to incorporate connectionist constructs. Numerous neural network models of varying complexity are developed to predict consumer loyalty as a crucial aspect of consumer behavior. Their performance is compared with the more traditional logistic regression model and it is found that neural networks offer consistent advantage over logistic regression in the prediction of consumer loyalty...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976945/progress-of-and-prospects-for-hypothetical-purchase-task-questionnaires-in-consumer-behavior-analysis-and-public-policy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Peter G Roma, Derek D Reed, Florence D DiGennaro Reed, Steven R Hursh
Based on the conceptual, methodological, and analytical framework of operant behavioral economics, hypothetical purchase task (HPT) questionnaires provide a low cost, scalable, and quantitatively rich source of empirical insights on consumer motivation, preferences, and decision-making. Here, we briefly summarize the history of HPT development and validation in clinically oriented research in addiction through to recent work with more conventional consumer goods and services. We discuss several possible novel applications of HPT methods to consumer behavior analysis for business, marketing, and public policy formulation and evaluation, as well as emerging best practices, limitations, and additional directions for future research and development...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976942/online-healthy-food-experiments-capturing-complexity-by-using-choice-based-conjoint-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Valdimar Sigurdsson, R G Vishnu Menon, Asle Fagerstrøm
The impact of complex environmental factors on consumer choices and preferences can be analyzed through the prism of consumer behavior analysis, whereas variations of marketing attributes and their impact on choice can be measured using conjoint analysis. Considering the case of the constantly growing online food selections, we discuss choice-based conjoint analysis and explore the opportunities for behavior analysts to examine the interrelationships of multiple variables and socially important choice settings, and to promote desired behaviors...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976933/consumer-maximization-of-utilitarian-and-informational-reinforcement-comparing-two-utility-measures-with-reference-to-social-class
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jorge M Oliveira-Castro, Gordon R Foxall
Based upon the Behavioral Perspective Model (BPM), previous analysis has shown that consumers tend to maximize utility as a function of the level of utilitarian (functional) and informational (social) reinforcement offered by brands. A model of consumer brand choice was developed, which applied a Cobb-Douglas utility function to the parameters that constitute the BPM, using consumer panel data. The present paper tested a variation of the previous model, which allows for measures of consumer utility at the level of aggregate household, in addition to utility per consumed product unit (e...
November 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976984/the-challenges-of-integrating-behavioral-and-neural-data-bridging-and-breaking-boundaries-across-levels-of-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniele Ortu, Manish Vaidya
We describe here two approaches introduced by Abrahamsen (1987) that can be used by behavior analysts to interpret neuroscientific data. The first is a "boundary-bridging" approach aimed at understanding the interdisciplinary interactions between the behavioral and the neural levels of analysis while keeping the two domains independent. When presenting the boundary-bridging approach, we describe neuroplasticity, a perspective that describes how changes at the brain level can be understood by examining behavioral factors...
June 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976981/the-future-of-behavior-analysis-foxes-and-hedgehogs-revisited
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marcus Jackson Marr
Some twenty-five years ago The Behavior Analyst published a paper by David Rider ( The Behavior Analyst, 14 , 171-181, 1991) titled "The speciation of behavior analysis." Rider's thesis was that basic and applied behavior analysis, for a variety of reasons, are destined to become independent species. In a commentary on this paper I pointed out, for example, that scientists and engineers are interdependent, especially at the frontiers of application. I was sanguine about a continuing analogous relationship between basic and applied behavior analysis...
June 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976977/predicting-reinforcement-utility-of-the-motivating-operations-concept
#18
EDITORIAL
Alan Poling, Amin Lotfizadeh, Timothy L Edwards
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
June 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976973/rft-as-a-functional-analytic-approach-to-understanding-the-complexities-of-human-behavior-a-reply-to-killeen-and-jacobs
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EDITORIAL
Ian Stewart
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
June 2017: Behavior Analyst
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31976969/editorial-are-theories-of-reinforcement-necessary
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EDITORIAL
Thomas S Critchfield, Jonathan R Miller
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
June 2017: Behavior Analyst
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