So I made this video of what is ABA and
everybody loved it... I challenged myself
in one minute: Could I describe what
applied behavior analysis is, and
during that there was a challenge from
Miranda Drake, Miranda this video is for
you! So with that said put one minute on
the clock and here we go
so you probably heard of Skinner's
Radical Behaviorism or Watson's
Methodological Behaviorism but actually
the first truly behavioral system of
psychology was J. R. Kantor's interbehaviorism now the basic assumption of
interbehavioral psychology is that the
datum of psychology is the organism
interacting or interbehaving with a
stimulus object via some sort of mode of
contact in a particular setting or
context these factors together make up
an interbehavioral field and what this
means is psychological activity then is
not localizable or reducible to any sort
of single organ, even entire
organisms but is constituted by the
entire field of events so what's cool is
there is no need to imply any sort of
analogies from machines computers
physics chemistry biology nor any of the
special powers such as the mind and the
person also isn't left empty in the
senses they are a part of the event but
no parts of that entire event field are
more significant than any other factor
they're all equal so I want to point out
a few things really quickly about this
inner behavioral event field that you
see first the media of stimulation
refers to the sensory means by which
contact is made between the organism and
the stimulus event setting factors are
similar to mos but they are not the same
they can be organismic or environmental
conditions that influence which stimuli
response functions will occur at a
particular point in time and then lastly
your interbehavioral history and
acknowledgement of the past interactions
one has had with the environment these
are all things that we see and we can
talk about but what can't or did that
was unique has put them into one system
whereas with Skinnerian three turn four
turn contingencies you have to you know
think about those but it's not a part of
the actual model you can learn more
about these in two books that I have
linked down below
these are my two favorites I will warn
you that this is only for the biggest of
behavior nerds out there and it will
make you completely rethink behavior
analysis in psychology any time you were
rethinking an entire subject it's not
done so quickly these are two of a solid
start of an approach to trying to
understand interbehaviorism and I would
argue would be a really good thing to
check out if you're interested in why
some of the top people in our field such
as Steve and Linda Hayes, Mitch Fryling , Mark Dixon, Evalyn Gould have all pursued and to
try to understand and master what JR
Kantor laid down in his books and I
question if this is also a reason that
we all love those presenters so much if
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time I've done this including answering
the question of if J R Kantor was really
the first ABA troll the answer may
surprise you
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next one that is your Daily BA... in one
minute... Miranda you win that was definitely
not one minute
