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Teaching Robots with Positive Reinforcement at Johns Hopkins University

November 20, 2020 bsci21 0

Dr. Todd A. Ward bSci21.org Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are successfully using positive reinforcement procedures to help robots learn. Reinforcers in the form of points are given to the robots upon the successful completion […]

ABA Practice

10 Myths of Applied Behavior Analysis

April 10, 2015 17

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC Applied Behavior Analysis has seen enormous growth over the past 15 years due to its successes in the areas of autism and developmental disabilities. ABA is […]

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How Grief Teaches Us Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

August 7, 2018 1

Jacob Martinez, MA, LPC Live long enough and you are guaranteed to know it intimately, that tangled up mix of inner experience we call grief. Grief is an experience that all of us share at […]

Business/OBM

Training Solutions are Evolving…With or Without Behavior Analysis

June 14, 2015 1

By Nicholas Weatherly, PhD, BCBA-D (nweatherly@aubreydaniels.com) bSci21 Guest Author As the field of behavior analysis was evolving from fundamental theory and experimentation to advanced principles and widespread application, the training technologies at our disposal were […]

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Technologies to help manage employees: Mobile performance support.

January 10, 2018 1

By Barbara Bucklin, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer This is the first installment in a series on technology to help manage employees. We’ll start with Mobile Performance Support (think mobile job aids). In recent years, technology […]

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How To Avoid Having Entitled Kids

July 14, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Parenting is simultaneously one of the most difficult and most rewarding things one will ever do in their lives. Every parent wants the best for their […]

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Four Prolific Writing Tips from B.F. Skinner

February 22, 2015 2

Back when I was a doctoral student at UNR, I came across an article by B.F. Skinner (1981) titled “How to Discover What you Have to Say — A Talk to Students.” In it, Skinner […]