Newsletter
Volume 30 | 2007 | Number 1
SQAB: Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior
30th Annual Meeting, May 24 – 26, 2007; Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA, USA
Friday, May 25 – held in Randle A & B
Randolph Grace, University of Canterbury. President’s Introduction.
Ralph R. Miller & Daniel S. Wheeler, State University of New York-Binghamton & Johns Hopkins University. Interactions between Competing Stimuli: Confirmation of Some Surprising Predictions of the SOCR Model of Pavlovian Responding.
Bernard Balleine, University of California, Los Angeles. Goal-Directed and Habitual Instrumental Actions.
Matthew C. Bell, Santa Clara University. Signal Effects and Resistance to Change.
Timothy A. Shahan & Christopher A. Podlesnik, Utah State University. Quantitative Analyses of Observing and Attending.
Daniel T. Cerruti, Duke University. Time and Conditioned Reinforcement.
Geoffrey White, University of Otago. Diffusion in Time Predicts Rate of Forgetting.
Armando Machado, University of Minho. Numerosity Differentiation in the Pigeon: Problems, Data, and Models.
Kimberly Kirkpatrick & Anna Wilkinson, University of York. Visually-Guided Capture of Moving Objects by Pigeons: Effects of Disappearance and Occlusion.
Carlos F. Aparicio, University of Guadalajara, CEAA. Dynamics of Choice: Studies with Rats.
James MacDonall, Fordham University. Earning Magnitudes of Reinforcers Influences Choice.
Michael Lamport Commons & Alexander Pekker, Harvard Medical School and University of Texas. Additive Discounting Models of Reinforcement.
Saturday, May 26 – held in Randle A & B
Thomas R. Zentall & Rebecca A. Singer, University of Kentucky. A Discrete-Trial Contrast Effect and Its Implications for ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ Theory and the Delay Reduction Hypothesis.
John Wixted, Laura Mickes, & Peter Wais, University of California, San Diego. Signal-Detection Theory: A Comparison of the Direct Rating Method vs. ROC Analysis.
Francis Mechner, The Mechner Foundation. A Language for the Formal Description of Complex Behavioral Contingencies.
Peter Killeen, Arizona State University. Foundations of Science:
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o Contingency o Complexity o Causality o Codability.
SQAB is sponsoring the following Invited Preeminent Tutorials during the normal ABA program. These tutorials will also be available as inexpensive videotapes or DVDs for classroom use.
Invited Preeminent Tutorials: From Basics to Contemporary Paradigms
| Author | Affiliation | Title | Discussant |
|---|---|---|---|
| James MacDonall | Fordham University | Getting Started in Quantitative Analyses of Behavior | Alliston Reid, Wofford College |
| Peter Killeen | Arizona State University | The Law of Affect | Marc Branch, University of Florida |
| Robert Cook | Tufts University | Stimulus Control | Thomas Zentall, University of Kentucky |
| Peter D. Balsam | Barnard College and Columbia University | Time, Uncertainty and Anticipation | Ralph Miller, State University of New York-Binghamton |
For further information, visit the SQAB Web site at: http://sqab.psychology.org or contact Alliston Reid, SQAB Program Chair, at Alliston.Reid@wofford.edu