Episode 341 - Relapse
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times". - Mark Twain
While not an episode about nicotene withdrawal, this week we're talking all about research describing the phenomenon of relapse. Or is it renewal? Resurgence? All of the above? Basically any situation in which behavior, once thought removed from a repertoire, comes screaming back into reality. Regardless, teaching skills without planning for generalization to different contexts or being unsure when extinction will come into play is a recipe for disaster. Fortunately, some great researchers have been in the behvaior analysis kitchen trying to cook up the perfect meal of learning.
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Articles discussed this episode:
Shahan, T.A. (2020). Relapse: An introduction. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 113, 8-14. doi: 10.1002/jeab.578
Podlesnik, C.A., Ritchey, C.M., Muething, C., & Falligant, J.M. (2025). Different criteria affect prevalence of relapse of behavior targeted for treatment. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 58, 225-231. doi: 10.1002/jaba.2927
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track the podcast that's like reading in your car. |
| 0:18.9 | But safer. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, |
| 0:22.0 | and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. |
| 0:25.8 | Oh, hey there, Mr. Perry Cruz. |
| 0:28.7 | It's Jaggy McDonald. |
| 0:32.7 | And it's me, Diana. |
| 0:35.5 | Perry Cruz, hello. |
| 0:37.4 | Hello. It's like, fill. Very Cruz. Hello. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello. |
| 0:38.9 | Hello. |
| 0:39.1 | It's like, fill out of blank. |
| 0:41.3 | Well, welcome to our podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research |
| 0:47.3 | where every week we pick a topic and discuss it. |
| 0:50.7 | One of the challenges of doing a show like that is sometimes we change context like we record in |
| 0:54.5 | different spaces and it is almost impossible to do the introduction and I start doing other things |
| 1:00.6 | or saying like I'm on a podcast you know not not the normal intro yeah and everyone noticed this |
| 1:07.1 | and so we said we better research this and do a whole episode about it and so so that's what we're going to do today. We're going to talk all about relapse. Relapse. Yeah, I, I love this topic because it was a listener recommendation. And I was like, I actually don't really know about this. And I might be teaching it wrong. And turns out everyone, I was. |
| 1:29.0 | I was using it wrong because it is not in Cooper. |
| 1:32.6 | I just want you to know. |
| 1:33.8 | The term relapsed is not occurring Cooper. |
| 1:36.6 | And whenever anyone would bring it up, I'd be like, |
| 1:39.8 | and then I would like move on. |
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