Inside Behavior Analysis
Volume 2 | 2010 | Number 1 | On-line ISSN: 2151-4704
SQAB: Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior 33rd Annual Meeting; Grand Hyatt San Antonio
Thursday, May 27
5:00–8:00 p.m. Registration, 1st Poster Session, Cash bar
Friday, May 28:
7:15–8:30 a.m. Registration, Coffee, & Pastries
8:25 a.m. Alliston K. Reid, Wofford College. President’s Introduction.
8:45 a.m. Peter D. Balsam, Barnard College and Columbia University. Neuroscience and Behavior Analysis (NABA): To Know a Mouse.
9:20 a.m. Bjoern Brembs, Freie Universität Berlin. Spontaneous Decisions and Operant Learning in Fruit Flies.
9:55 a.m. Break—Refreshments
10:15 a.m. Laurent Madelain, Céline Paeye, & Jean-Claude Darcheville, Université Lille Nord de France. Operant Control of Eye Movements.
10:50 a.m. Alliston K. Reid, Wofford College. Resistance to Change Within Heterogeneous Response Sequences.
11:25 a.m. John P. Berg & Jack J. McDowell, Emory University. Catania's Computational Model of the Operant Reserve Does Not Generate Herrnstein's Hyperbola in the Steady State.
12:00 p.m. Lunch
Special Section on Choice and Discounting
1:45 p.m. Cynthia J. Pietras, J. Adam Bennett, & Gabriel D. Searcy, Western Michigan University. Optimal Risky Choice in Humans: Effects of Amount of Variability.
2:20 p.m. Howard Rachlin, Stony Brook University. Why Cooperate in a One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma Game? Three "Answers."
2:55 p.m. Amy L. Odum, Utah State University. Delay Discounting: Trait and State Contributions.
3:30 p.m. Break—Refreshments
3:50 p.m. Suzanne H. Mitchell, Oregon Health & Science University. Lost in Translation: Exploring Delay Discounting in Humans and Rodents.
4:25 p.m. Matthew L. Locey & Jesse Dallery, Stony Brook University & University of Florida. Nicotine and the Behavioral Mechanisms of Intertemporal Choice.
5:00 p.m. Leonard Green & Joel Myerson, Washington University in St. Louis. Modeling Magnitude Effects: Implications for Theories of Delay and Probability Discounting.
5:45–6:30 p.m. Business Meeting
6:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. 2nd Poster Session and Cash bar
Saturday, May 29:
7:15–8:30 a.m. Registration, Coffee, & Pastries
8:30 a.m. Thomas R. Zentall, University of Kentucky. Maladaptive Choice Behavior by Pigeons: An Animal Analog of Human Gambling Behavior.
9:05 a.m. Gregory J. Madden, University of Kansas. Delay Discounting and "Gambling."
9:40 a.m. Break—Refreshments
9:55 a.m. Peter R. Killeen, Arizona State University. The Grand Mother of All Discount Functions.
10:30 a.m. Taiki Takahashi, Hokkaido University. Neuro-Social Modulation of Discounting.
SQAB Invited Preeminent Tutorials: From Basics to Contemporary Paradigms
Saturday afternoon, May 29 (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
| Time | Author | Affiliation | Title | Chair |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 p.m. | Stephen Fowler | University of Kansas | Dynamics of Response: Uninterrupted Measurement of the Behavior Stream | Jonathan Pinkston |
| 2:00 p.m. | Robert MacPhail | National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. EPA | Environment, Behavior, and Pollution: Quantifying Risk | M. Christopher Newland |
| 3:00 p.m. | Michael Davison | The University of Auckland, New Zealand | What "Reinforcers" Do to Behavior, II: Signposts to the Future | Peter Killeen |
| 4:00 p.m. | Gerald Shook |
Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Inc. | The Behavior Analyst Certification Board and the Behavior Analyst Profession | James M. Johnston |