Describes the science and terminology of operant conditioning and how it can be used in animal training. Explores the use of conditioned reinforcers and "clicker training", too.
Resources for behavioral intervention for autism: research, professionals, schools, support groups, curriculum materials, and special education and legal resources.
Behavior Analysts, Inc., seeks to provide high-quality, effective interventions for children with developmental disabilities, and to provide training to other professionals in the delivery of these services.
Contingencies shape and maintain behavior that affects individual choices, social justice, and environmental protection. The search for contingencies that enhance these outcomes, instead of ignoring them, is a concern of this site.
Rich set of resources for research, professional advancement, and applications to education, industry, and special populations. Sections on aging, autism, parenting, behavioral safety, organizational behavior, pets and animals, and verbal behavior.
Companion website to the click-l mailing list. Clicker Training, based on Karen Pryor's book, "Don't Shoot the Dog", is about using a bridge (secondary reinforcer) to shape behavior. Check out "Gems" section in particular.
Abstracts of published articles and presented papers on joint control. Highly technical. Application of Skinner's concepts of verbal behavior to a rigorous, behavioral description of those human performances commonly ascribed to hypothesized psychological processes of perception, cognition, memory, problem solving, and goal orientation.
A Walden Two community (after the book by Fred Skinner) founded in 1973. Los Horcones is an experimental culture. It functions as a social laboratory where cultural practices or macrocontingencies are scientifically studied from a behavioral analytic perspective.
Online tutorial on positive reinforcement. Also serves as an example of the self-instructional "distance learning" exercises used in many Athabasca University (Canada) courses.