Episode 1 - Infant Behavior
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
For our inaugural episode, Rob, Diana, and Jackie talk about research regarding infants including the impact of crying on caregiver behavior and the use of high-preference items to increase infant compliance.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode one of ABA, the Inside Track, a podcast where we bring behavior analytic research to you. I'm your host, Robert Perry |
| 0:22.6 | Cruz, and with me are my co-host, Dr. Diana Perry Cruz, and Dr. Jackie McDonald. Hello, |
| 0:28.6 | co-hosts. Hello, Rob. Hi, Rob. Hi, Diana. Hi, Jackie. Why, thank you. Well, it's so great to |
| 0:36.2 | have you here talking about this episode's topic. |
| 0:40.1 | So for those new listeners, which is everybody, as this is episode one, what we'll be doing |
| 0:46.8 | every episode is talking about recent research, recent behavior analytic research on a theme. |
| 0:53.4 | This month's theme is infant behavior. We're going |
| 0:56.4 | to be talking about two articles, both from the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. One is |
| 1:01.1 | Katie and Rhone's 2012 study, effects of access to a stimulating object on infant behavior during |
| 1:07.7 | tummy time. And the second, we're going to be talking about Thompson, Bruzek, and Cote Noir Bishelman's |
| 1:13.2 | 2011 article, The Role of Negative Reinforcement in Infant Caregiving, an Experimental Simulation. |
| 1:19.2 | So let's start off with the Thompson article on the role of negative reinforcement in infant |
| 1:24.2 | caregiving. |
| 1:25.1 | Jackie, could you start us with a very quick summary of the article itself? |
| 1:28.3 | Sure. |
| 1:29.0 | So before I begin talking about the article, I want to tell you why I love this article. |
| 1:35.6 | Sounds great. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.0 | Don't give away the good stuff too early. |
| 1:38.8 | No spoilers yet. |
| 1:40.4 | But the reason that I feel that this is an important article when we talk about infant behavior |
| 1:46.4 | is because infants cry and they cry a lot. |
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