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Contingencies, Opportunities, Accidents and Miracles

Contingencies, Opportunities, Accidents and Miracles. A. Charles Catania NCABA, February 2014. First, let’s get the miracles out of the way. CHAOS THEORY. Darwin’s butterfly Now think of all the butterflies. ...and now on to some less outrageous improbabilities.

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Contingencies, Opportunities, Accidents and Miracles

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  1. Contingencies, Opportunities, Accidents and Miracles • A. Charles Catania • NCABA, February 2014

  2. First, let’s get the miracles out of the way.

  3. CHAOS THEORY • Darwin’s butterfly • Now think of all the butterflies....

  4. ...and now on to some less outrageous improbabilities

  5. Growing up in New York City • The corner 5 & 10-cent store • comics • science fiction

  6. Growing up in New York City • The corner 5 & 10-cent store • comics • science fiction • Dianetics

  7. Growing up in New York City • The New York Public Library • More science fiction • Science, philosophy, language

  8. Growing up in New York City • Ethnic Neighborhoods • The NYC Hospital System • Harlem Hospital • Bronx Municipal Hospital Center and its psychiatric wards

  9. Columbia College • Fred Keller’s Introductory course • 1st Semester: the rat lab • 2nd Semester: the human lab • Nat Schoenfeld’s courses in Experimental Psychology • 1st Semester: Discrimination • 2nd Semester: Motivation

  10. Reinforcement • Reinforcing responses or reinforcing organisms?

  11. Thinking Behaviorally • Circular reasoning in everyday accounts of the causes of behavior • Attitudes • The language of emotions and feelings • Hunger as a cause of behavior • Anger as a cause of behavior • Skinner’s pecking order demonstration

  12. Columbia College • Senior Year • Fred Keller’s seminar on teaching • Keller, Schoenfeld and Hefferline’s seminar on verbal behavior • Teaching assistantship

  13. ANTECEDENTS • BEHAVIOR • (WORDS) • CONSEQUENCES

  14. Encounters with Skinner • NYC and Cambridge, MA • First encounter: The NYC Public Library • Columbia College and a Skinner colloquium at Barnard • Harvard and a third encounter

  15. The Harvard Pigeon Lab • and not Teaching Machines

  16. The Harvard Pigeon Lab • ...and the Psychoacoustics Lab • Smitty Stevens • Georg von Bekesy • visitors: Ratliff, Hartline, Land....

  17. The Contemporary Significance of Psychophysics (Sensation and Perception) for Behavior Analysis • Examples: • DD and sensory deficits • hearing loss and recruitment • effects of high DB levels (especially in children) • intraocular events

  18. Analogies to inhibitory interactions in biological systems

  19. The Harvard Pigeon Laband SK&F • Peter Dews and the Three Major Principles of Psychopharmacology • Enough of anything blocks anything • No drug has a single action • You can’t learn much without a dose-response curve

  20. More about Venues • UMBC • The UMBC ABA MA • KKI and learning about extinction, reinforcement, and free reinforcers

  21. EXT (a)

  22. EXT (b)

  23. EXT / RT 20-s

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