matching law

If You’re Not Following this Rule, You’re Not Delivering Excellent Service

November 28, 2017 bsci21 0

Jess Graham, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer As the service manager for a customer-facing organization, I have one rule in my team that we all follow (no matter how difficult): Don’t blame the customer! Every single […]

Predict your next football game with the Generalized Matching Equation!

October 19, 2015 bsci21 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Stilling and Critchfield, in a study published in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, tested the degree to which the Generalized Matching Equation (GME) predicted the selection […]

Lifestyle

ABA and Martial Arts

March 2, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org UFC fans have much to rejoice in Ronda Rousey’s defeat of Cat Zingano by arm bar in a mere 14 seconds last Saturday. Many now refer […]

Ivory Tower

Radical Behaviorism aint the only game in town!

February 6, 2015 8

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Most bSci21 readers are familiar with B.F. Skinner’s Radical Behaviorism. In the opening lines of About Behaviorism Skinner states that it is not a science, but the […]

Ivory Tower

Challenging Dick Malott’s Jewish Mother

May 9, 2018 0

Scott Herbst, Ph.D. & Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi Brett DiNovi & Associates Everywhere I go, people are always like, “Man, what controversy is Brett DiNovi stirring up today?” In this […]

ABA Practice

State of the Clinical ABA “Industry”

September 2, 2016 4

By Daniel B. Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer “Study the past if you would define the future” Confucius “What is dead may never die” Iron Islander proverb It has been said we are in a […]

ABA Practice

6 Ways to Improve your Delivery of Non-Contingent Reinforcement

February 24, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Non-Contingent Reinforcement (NCR) can be a powerful technique of behavior change. The crucial element that makes NCR effective is that it breaks, or dilutes, the contingency […]

ABA Practice

One way to teach self control with ABA.

November 19, 2015 4

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Self control is something many applied behavior analysts target in their behavior plans as it is a skill that, if learned, can help remove barriers to […]