Hi there, everyone, and welcome to episode two preview for ABA Inside Track. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, here with one of my

co-host, Diana Perry Cruz. Hello, Diana. Hello, Rob. How are you doing today?

Jo's fine. How are you? I'm doing fine, thank you. First, I'd like to say to everyone who

wrote to the Facebook page with words of congratulations or thanks or good job.

Thank you so much.

It was really nice to get such great feedback on that very first episode, and we hope to continue

the trend with our follow-up episode.

Now, what we'll be doing is recording an episode on a topic every other week, and in between that,

we'll be telling you a little bit about the topic.

We'll be going over the next week and giving you citations to read.

So if you'd like to read along with us or read before the next episode, you are very well

prepared for the discussion.

So next week's topic will be

conditioned reinforcers in the social setting. We have two articles that we'll be reading,

and you can certainly find these posted on the website. And the articles are both from

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. The first is a comparison of two pairing procedures to establish praise as a reinforcer by Doja, Awada, Thompson, Sassy, Wardsill, and Wilson from the Winter 2012 issue, volume 45.

The second is establishing books as conditioned reinforcers for preschool children as a function of an observational

intervention by Singer-Dudec, Oblock, and Greer from the 2011 fall issue, Volume 44. We'll have

links up to those on the website. You can click that and read the article so that you're ready for

next week's

discussion. Dina, you had a section that you felt we would probably end up using at some point

in the show, and we should start using it right away. Yep, pretty much. So we also thought that

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