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Response Systems, Antagonistic Responses, and the Behavioral Repertoire (open access)

Response Systems, Antagonistic Responses, and the Behavioral Repertoire

This article is a perspective arguing that response systems can be understood as an interaction between anatomically constrained behavioral topographies occasioned by currently present stimuli and a history of reinforcement.
Date: January 13, 2022
Creator: Ortu, Daniele & Bugg, Ryan M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Higher education and behavior analysis in Europe: creating a unified approach for the training of autism professionals (open access)

Higher education and behavior analysis in Europe: creating a unified approach for the training of autism professionals

Article discussing advances, challenges, and future directions for training of behavior analysts for autism services within the context of higher education in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Norway, and Sweden.
Date: June 16, 2020
Creator: Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla; Roll-Pettersson, Lise, 1955-; Gena, Angeliki; Eldevik, Sigmund; Moderato, Paolo; Sigurdardottir, Zuilma Gabriela et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Importance of Professional Discourse for the Continual Advancement of Practice Standards: The RBT® as a Case in Point (open access)

The Importance of Professional Discourse for the Continual Advancement of Practice Standards: The RBT® as a Case in Point

This article highlights concerns in recent changes to the Registered Behavior Technician™ certification (RBT®) including the processes of training, supervising, and becoming an RBT®. It then proposes solutions to improve the RBT® certification.
Date: August 6, 2020
Creator: Leaf, Justin B.; Leaf, Ronald; McEachin, John; Bondy, Andy; Cihon, Joseph H.; Detrich, Ronnie et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progressing From Identification and Functional Analysis of Precursor Behavior to Treatment of Selfinjurious Behavior (open access)

Progressing From Identification and Functional Analysis of Precursor Behavior to Treatment of Selfinjurious Behavior

This article evaluates the utility of assessing and treating severe selfinjurious behavior (SIB) based on the outcomes of a functional analysis of precursor behavior.
Date: September 26, 2011
Creator: Dracobly, Joseph D. & Smith, Richard G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Critchfield's Proposal: Student Concerns and Recommendations (open access)

On Critchfield's Proposal: Student Concerns and Recommendations

This article contains a response to the article by Critchfield (2011) entitled "Interesting Times: Practice, Science, and Professional Associations in Behavior Analysis", including a concern about the effect of seprating science and practice on the future of behavior analysis.
Date: 2012
Creator: Bayles, Makenzie W.; Boutain, Ariana R.; Ackerlund Brandt, Julie A.; Call, Nikki; Dracobly, Joseph D.; Greer, Brian D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Not so bad: avoidance and aversive discounting modulate threat appraisal in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex (open access)

Not so bad: avoidance and aversive discounting modulate threat appraisal in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

This article describes an investigation in which 30 healthy adults underwent functional neuroimaging while completing an avoidance task in which responses to an Avoidable CS+ threat prevented delivery of an aversive stimulus, but not to an Unavoidable CS+ threat.
Date: June 10, 2015
Creator: Schlund, Michael W.; Brewer, Adam T.; Richman, David M.; Magee, Sandy K. & Dymond, Simon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalization of socially transmitted and instructed avoidance (open access)

Generalization of socially transmitted and instructed avoidance

This article compares two pathways to avoidance--instructions and social observation--on subsequent generalization of avoidance behavior, fear expectancy and physiological arousal.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Cameron, Gemma; Schlund, Michael W. & Dymond, Simon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behavioral Cusps: A Developmental and Pragmatic Concept for Behavior Analysis (open access)

Behavioral Cusps: A Developmental and Pragmatic Concept for Behavior Analysis

Article on behavioral cusps and a developmental and pragmatic concept for behavior analysis.
Date: April 3, 1997
Creator: Rosales-Ruiz, Jesus & Baer, Donald M. (Donald Merle), 1931-2002
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Loading the Problem Loader: The Effects of Target Training and Shaping on Trailer-Loading Behavior of Horses (open access)

Loading the Problem Loader: The Effects of Target Training and Shaping on Trailer-Loading Behavior of Horses

Article on the effects of target training and shaping on the trailer-loading behavior of horses.
Date: 2001
Creator: Ferguson, Dawnery L. & Rosales-Ruiz, Jesus
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Functional Analysis and Treatment of Self-Injury in a Captive Olive Baboon (open access)

Functional Analysis and Treatment of Self-Injury in a Captive Olive Baboon

Article on the functional analysis and treatment of self-injury in a captive olive baboon.
Date: February 13, 2009
Creator: Dorey, Nicole R.; Rosales-Ruiz, Jesus; Smith, Richard G. & Lovelace, Bryan S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safe from Harm: Learned, Instructed, and Symbolic Generalization Pathways of Human Threat-Avoidance (open access)

Safe from Harm: Learned, Instructed, and Symbolic Generalization Pathways of Human Threat-Avoidance

Article on learned, instructed, and symbolic generalization pathways of human threat-avoidance.
Date: October 15, 2012
Creator: Dymond, Simon; Schlund, Michael W.; Roche, Bryan; Houwer, Jan de & Freegard, Gary P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression (open access)

Generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression

This article explores how generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression. The authors' findings highlight frontal and limbic hypoactivation in patients with depression and comorbid anxiety and indicate that anxiety level may modulate frontal and limbic activation depending upon the emotional context.
Date: February 9, 2012
Creator: Schlund, Michael W.; Verduzco, Guillermo; Cataldo, Michael F. & Hoehn-Saric, Rudolf
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Difficulty of Assessing Female Psychopathy: Methods of Measuring Psychopathy and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Function, and Misdiagnosis in Females - A Work in Progress

Poster presentation for the 2010 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the difficulty of assessing female psychopathy.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Roberts, Sandra J. & Neumann, Craig S.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behavioral Measures of Play (open access)

Behavioral Measures of Play

The purpose of this article is to review the importance of play in a young child's life and to discuss the importance of measuring play when designing interventions for children with autism. Furthermore, this paper will present an example of a consistent and reliable observation system that assesses the complexity and variety of play on children with autism and with typically developing children.
Date: 2008
Creator: Guðmundsdóttir, Kristín & Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior (open access)

Amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior

Article on amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior. The authors examine amygdala reactivity to threatening cues when avoidance responding consistently prevented contact with an upcoming aversive event (money loss).
Date: November 1, 2010
Creator: Schlund, Michael W. & Cataldo, Michael F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nothing to fear? Neural systems supporting avoidance behavior in healthy youths (open access)

Nothing to fear? Neural systems supporting avoidance behavior in healthy youths

Article discussing neural systems supporting avoidance behavior in healthy youths. The author's investigation examined brain activation patterns to threatening cues that prompted avoidance in healthy youths.
Date: August 15, 2010
Creator: Schlund, Michael W.; Siegle, Greg J.; Ladouceur, Cecile D.; Silk, Jennifer S.; Cataldo, Michael F.; Forbes, Erika E. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pediatric functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging: tactics for encouraging task compliance (open access)

Pediatric functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging: tactics for encouraging task compliance

This article discusses tactics for encouraging compliance in pediatric functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging.
Date: May 6, 2011
Creator: Schlund, Michael W.; Cataldo, Michael F.; Siegle, Greg J.; Ladouceur, Cecile D.; Silk, Jennifer S.; Forbes, Erika E. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neural correlates of derived relational responding on tests of stimulus equivalence (open access)

Neural correlates of derived relational responding on tests of stimulus equivalence

This article discusses neural correlates of derived relational responding on tests of stimulus equivalence.
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: Schlund, Michael W.; Cataldo, Michael F. & Hoehn-Saric, Rudolf
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occipitoparietal contributions to recognition memory: stimulus encoding prompted by verbal instructions and operant contingencies (open access)

Occipitoparietal contributions to recognition memory: stimulus encoding prompted by verbal instructions and operant contingencies

This article discusses occipitoparietal contributions to recognition memory and stimulus encoding prompted by verbal instructions and operant contingencies.
Date: August 21, 2007
Creator: Schlund, Michael W. & Cataldo, Michael F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching and Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism: "Necessity is the Mother of Invention" (open access)

Teaching and Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism: "Necessity is the Mother of Invention"

Article discussing current thinking about adult education and blended learning technologies, as well as examples of emerging possibilities of multimedia technology in the development of teaching materials.
Date: November 13, 2015
Creator: Roll-Pettersson, Lise, 1955-; Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla; Keenan, Mickey & Dillenburger, Karola
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging Opportunities in Higher Education: Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism (open access)

Emerging Opportunities in Higher Education: Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism

This article discusses applying behavior analysis to autism.
Date: January 30, 2017
Creator: Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla; Roll-Pettersson, Lise, 1955-; Pinkelman, Sarah E. & Cihon, Traci M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Three Important Things to Consider When Starting Intervention for a Child Diagnosed with Autism (open access)

Three Important Things to Consider When Starting Intervention for a Child Diagnosed with Autism

Article discussing three important things to consider when starting intervention for a child diagnosed with autism.
Date: June 1, 2017
Creator: Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla & Zeug, Nicole M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of Interests in Children with Autism: A Method to Establish Baselines for Analyses and Evaluation (open access)

The Development of Interests in Children with Autism: A Method to Establish Baselines for Analyses and Evaluation

This article discusses development of interests in children with autism.
Date: 2008
Creator: Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla; Zeug, Nicole M. & Baynham, Tanya Y.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of a Supportive Communication Training Workshop on the Verbal Behavior of Behavior Analysis (open access)

The Effects of a Supportive Communication Training Workshop on the Verbal Behavior of Behavior Analysis

Article on the effects of a supportive communication training workshop on the verbal behavior of behavior analysts.
Date: May 1, 2010
Creator: Blell, Zainab D.; Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla & Rosales-Ruiz, Jesus
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library