Talking About Behavior – Radical Behaviorism for ABA Practitioners
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P1 – What makes a behavior analyst?
Chapter 1
Reading 1.1 – The politics of behavior
Reading 1.2 – Can you really distinguish between professional and personal?
Chapter 2
Reading 2.1 – The meaning of meaning
Reading 2.2 – What I hear You Saying
Reading 2.3 – The problem with problem behavior as communication
Reading 2.4 – Identifying a behavior
Reading 2.5 – What if we had no verbal behavior?
Reading 2.6 – Do we have to explain everything?
Chapter 3
Reading 3.1 – You don’t have to understand
Reading 3.2 – The seduction of antecedent causes
Reading 3.3 – How good are you at recognizing mentalism?
Reading 3.4 – The web mentalism weaves
Reading 3.5 – “Can,” “can’t,” and self-fulfilling prophecies
Reading 3.6 – Why Behavior Analysis is a Natural Science
Chapter 4
Reading 4.1 – The Mind’s Eye and the Voice in Our Head
Reading 4.2 – What is “_______?”
Reading 4.3 – When are feelings really feelings?
Reading 4.4 – You can’t understand feelings and emotions without behavior
Reading 4.5 – Can dogs feel jealousy?
Reading 4.6 – Do feelings require verbal behavior?
Chapter 5
Reading 5.1 – How do you know who you are?
Reading 5.2 – Can you step outside your history?
Reading 5.3 – Aphantasia
Chapter 6
Reading 6.1 – It’s About the Evidence
Reading 6.2 – Are you confused?
Reading 6.3 – Should we talk about controlling as a behavior?
Reading 6.4 – Isn’t this just bribery?
Reading 6.5 – What is remembering, and why don’t we remember when we were toddlers?
Reading 6.6 – Why logic doesn’t matter
Chapter 7
Reading 7.1 – What are your intentions?
Reading 7.2 – Can you be responsible for your behavior? Should you be?
Chapter 8
Reading 8.1 – The value of values
Reading 8.2 – Behavior analysis and religion: Are you asking the right question?
Chapter 9
Reading 9.1 – Universal contingencies and the essential human
Chapter 10
Reading 10.1 – The lesson of King Sisyphus
Reading 10.2 – As if
Reading 10.3 – 42
Reading 10.4 – Form, function, and operational definitions
Reading 10.5 – How would they have learned that?
Miscellaneous
Reading M1 – Afterword – a decade later
Reading M2 – How well do you understand operant learning?
Reading M3 – Labeling behavior
Reading M4 – Rules are for amateurs
Reading M5 – Can professionalism go too far?
Reading M6 – An essential curiosity
Reading M7 – Ten things all students of behavior analysis need to know
Reading M8 – Salience and difficulty
Reading M9 – A strange thought experiment
Reading M10 – Qualia
Reading M11 – Can you unlearn a behavior?
Reading M12 – The Border Collie and the behavior analyst
Reading M13 – Research methods as a way of talking about behavior
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August 2017
August 3, 2017
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Jim Johnston
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You don’t have to understand
One of the more common convictions shared by everyday folk – that is, those who haven’t been enlightened by training in behavior analysis – is that
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