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- St. Cloud State University: Masters in Applied Behavior Analysis - The Master of Science in applied psychology: behavior analysis program offers academic and professional training in applied behavior analysis, with applications in areas such as developmental disabilities, behavior therapy, addictive behavior, behavioral pharmacology, health psychology, organizational behavior analysis, or the experimental analysis of behavior.
- Behavior Analysis Graduate Program at California State University, Stanislaus - Offers a Masters of Science Degree in Behavior Analysis. 52 unit program has courses in Behavioral Assessment, Conceptual Issues in Behavior Analysis, Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Behavior Analysis in the Clasroom, Child Clinical and others. There are several paid internships available. The Behavior Analysis program has 5 tenured faculty who earned their PhD degrees from well known behavioral departments (Western Michigan University, SUNY at Stonybrook and West Virginia University). Applications are accepted twice per academic year.
- Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies - Applied behavior analysis and behavioral psychology for solving real-world problems. Contains resources for aging, autism, parenting, everyday life, behavioral safety, systems analysis, pets and zoos, education, and verbal behavior.
- Bird Behavior - Bird Behavior is an international and interdisciplinary journal that publishes research on avian behavior, including the areas of ethology, behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.
- Behavior Based Safety at Quality Safety Edge - Houston-based consulting company (Dr. Terry McSween and others) applies behavior analysis to design behavior based safety programs for companies, reflecting values of the employees. Many articles about behavioral safety on this site. Annual host of the Behavioral Safety Now conference.
- 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.
- University of Florida Department of Psychology - The area of Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) functions within the Department of Psychology to provide instruction and training, and to conduct research. Students are offered instruction and mentorship from faculty and affiliated faculty, and may choose to emphasize programs of study and research in various areas of behavior analysis including behavioral pharmacology, choice, developmental disabilities, behavioral medicine, and instructional technology, among others. Research laboratories are located both on and off campus and involve applied and basic research with humans and nonhumans.
- Dr. D. S. Lee, Board Certified Behavioral Psychologist - ABPP - Research and services: Applied Behavior Analysis and interventions for children with autism, and behavioral rehabilition/management for traumatic brain injury.
- Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Inc. - A nonprofit corporation established pursuant to the identification of credentialing needs by the Association for Behavior Analysis, agencies within several state governments, and consumers of behavior analysis services. The main purpose is to develop, promote, and implement a voluntary national certification program for behavior analyst practitioners.
- APA Div 25: Experimental Analysis of Behavior - Among the APA divisions that advance psychology as a natural science, the Division for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior is perhaps unique in its emphasis on behavior as a subject matter in its own right. Website has a listing of behavior analysis resources.
Wikipedia Articles
- Behaviorism - Behaviorism (also called learning perspective) is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things which organisms do — including acting, thinking and feeling—can and should be regarded as behaviors. The school of psychology maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse either ...
- Radical behaviorism - Radical behaviorism is a philosophy developed by B. F.
- J. E. R. Staddon - John Eric Rayner Staddon (born 19 March 1937) is a British-born American behavioral psychologist known for research on interval timing, "superstition," and behavioral optimality in rats, pigeons, and fish. He is also known for his critiques of Skinnerian behaviorism and the proposal of a controversial "New Behaviorism.
- Behavioral script - In the behaviorism approach to psychology behavioral scripts are a sequence of expected behaviors for a given situation. For example, when you enter a restaurant you choose a table, order, wait, eat, pay the bill and leave.
- Anecdotal cognitivism - Anecdotal cognitivism is a psychological theory and animal cognition term which entails attribution of mental states to animals on the basis of anecdotes, and on the observation of particular cases, other than those observations made during controlled experiments. It is opposed to behaviorism, and behaviorists are very critical of anecdotal cognitivism, suggesting that controlled experiments are necessary to correctly measure stimuli and record observable behavior.