Episode 4 - Novel Behavior and Lag Schedules
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2016
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, we review articles on novel behavior. Diana gushes over lag schedules and their effects on novel architectural features in children's play, Rob demands 21st-century learning for America, and Jackie wishes for her very own block building kit. Then the gang gets cerebral in a discussion about creativity as behavior. All that and the home version of the Novel Vocalizations Game!
Articles reviewed in this episode:
Goetz, E.M. & Baer, D.M. (1973). Social control of form diversity and the emergence of new forms in children's blockbuilding. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 6, 209-217. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1973.6-209
Cammillieri, A.P. & Hanley, G.P. (2005). Use of a lag differential reinforcement contingency to increase varied selections of classroom activities. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 38, 111-115. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2005.34-04
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast, which is like reading in your car, but much safer. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruise, and with me are my fabulous co-hosts. I'm Diana. And I'm Jackie. Hi, everyone. With a hat on. How's everyone doing? I'm good. I'm cold right now. It's randomly cold today. Yeah, it was snowing today in Boston. We had some white out conditions this morning. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm wearing a hat, and I have a blanket skirt on and a blanket cape on. |
| 0:45.6 | And I'm drinking tea. |
| 0:47.1 | And what month is it? |
| 0:48.2 | It's April. |
| 0:49.4 | Welcome to April. |
| 0:50.6 | Awesome. |
| 0:52.5 | Well, we braved the weather today to come to talk to you about novel behavior. |
| 0:58.3 | So we'll be reading not one, not two, but three articles. |
| 1:03.0 | Or what we read them. |
| 1:04.0 | We'll talk about three articles. |
| 1:05.9 | You get a bonus. |
| 1:07.5 | Bonus! |
| 1:08.8 | Article this week. |
| 1:09.7 | Don't say we never did nothing for you out there. |
| 1:13.1 | So let's get into this discussion of novel behavior. |
| 1:17.6 | Now, before we get into the articles, I wanted to ask about the concept of the lag schedule, |
| 1:23.2 | because two of these articles very specifically talk about the lag schedule. |
| 1:26.1 | And, you know, it made sense in the context of the articles, but to be honest, it's not a reinforcement schedule I'm very familiar with. So could somebody give, not me, I totally get it now, but our listeners, a little bit of a description about... Hypothetically speaking. Someone might not know what this is, and I feel bad for them. |
| 1:44.9 | So would one of you or both of you please talk a little bit about what is a lag schedule, |
| 1:49.4 | where do we see them, where are they used? |
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