Cambridge Center tutorial
Would you like to learn more about the Science of Behavior?
We suggest you work progressively down the the following list of tutorials and recommend readings. They are ordered in complexity. Start your introduction to the science of behavior by doing the first tutorial about the mission of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies-- then proceed to the rest.
Interactive
Tutorials
About the Science of Behavior
This interactive programmed instruction tutorial tells you about the mission of the Center. (Time required: Approximately 10 minutes)
NEW:
Introductory tutorials about behavior analysis and what it can do for you.
This the beginning of an entire instructional program about Behavior
Analysis. Dr. Darrel Bostow at the University of South Florida is in the
process of creating these tutorials to be taken in serial order by a person new
to our field. Please give him your personal feedback when you finish the
tutorials available. Do this by emailing to bostow@coedu.usf.edu
Behavior
Analysis Glossary of Technical Terminology. This 2000-entry glossary
compares the definitions of 10 major texts in the field of behavior
analysis. The source of each definition is given. A careful
comparison of term definitions gives a good idea of how each term is used in the
field.
B. F. Skinner wrote extensively about a science of behavior. In his
utopian novel, Walden Two, he described a community of 1,000 people whose daily living
environments employed a science of behavior. It is a provocative view of
what the future might be like if a science of behavior were more skillfully
applied. Walden Two is widely available in local bookstores as well as WEB
vendors such as Amazon.com. A helpful guide to reading Skinner's Walden Two
called: A Walking Tour of Walden Two by Fernald is
directly available to you to aid in a careful study of Walden Two.
"Baby
in a Box." Walden Two described "cubicles" in the
nursery. Skinner created one for his second daughter, Debbie and published
an article called "Baby in a Box" in The Ladies Home Journal in
1945. A tutorial about B. F. Skinner's much discussed "Aircrib"
is available for your use.
( Time required: Approximately 30 minutes)
Aircrib
Tutorial
Tutorials
about the Science of behavior
If you wish to become even more familiar with the philosophy of science called behaviorism and the principles of behavior that are the foundation of this science, you may wish to begin the following series of tutorials. Each set of instructional frames takes approximately 10-30 minutes. The first six introduce you to the foundations and assumptions of a science of behavior. Subsequent sets introduce you to the principles of behavior that are now being applied in a wide variety of social environments.
Tutorials
about Programmed Instruction
Tutorials contained at this website employ the principles of behavior in a precise and disciplined fashion. They were created for those who, themselves, wish to create instructional tutorials. The skills necessary are extensive. This link leads you to the Center for Programmed Instruction and its many activities.
Relational Frame Theory is a contextual analysis of cognition and psychological events which does not appeal to other psychological events to explain thought and other complex human behavior. It is an alternative to Skinner's analysis of Verbal Behavior. Eric Fox's tutorial provides a good introduction to RFT.
NEW:
Introduction to behavior analysis in Spanish
--Important readings about the scope of the science of behavior [currently under construction.........}
For
more information, link back to the www.behavior.org
site.
