July 2014

July 27, 2014

Salience and difficulty

Discussions of ways of improving stimulus control over a target behavior sometimes refer to augmenting the “salience” of antecedent stimuli.  Such uses of this term are formalized […]
July 6, 2014

“Can,” “can’t,” and self-fulfilling prophecies

Our daily dialect is laden with implications.  Take the words, “can” and “can’t.”  When we say that we can do something, we make an implicit prediction.  […]