Episode 57 - Do Humans Prefer Contingencies?

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week we're researching the age-old question: Will I be happier by doing stuff or just waiting for the world to reward me? In behavioral terms, we're discussing whether humans prefer contingent or noncontingent reinforcement. After going over two excellent research articles exploring this question through the use of the ever-popular concurrent-chains procedure, Jackie and Diana expose their crazy, right-wing politics to assess the U.S. welfare system while our favorite liberal progressive, Rob, watches in horror.

Articles discussed this episode:

Luczynksi, K.C. & Hanley, G.P. (2009). Do children prefer contingencies? An evaluation of the efficacy of and preference for contingent versus noncontingent social reinforcement during play. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 42, 511-525. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2009.42-511

Hanley, G.P., Piazza, C.C., Fisher, W.W., Contrucci, S.A., & Maglieri, K.A. (1997). Evaluation of client preference for function-based treatment packages. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 30, 459-473. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1997.30-459

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0:00.0	Hey everybody.
0:15.5	Welcome to ABA Inside Track the podcast.
0:18.1	That's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:20.6	I'm your host robert perry
0:21.9	cruz and with me as always is my fabulous co-host inventor and genius it's me diana that's an
0:30.0	inside joke and my other fabulous co-host who is neither inventor but maybe a genius not ah at all a
0:36.5	genius jackie hey everybody how's it going it's great inventor, but maybe a genius. Not all a genius. Jackie!
0:38.8	Hey, everybody.
0:39.8	How's it going?
0:41.1	It's great.
0:41.8	It's fine.
0:42.7	We're doing good?
0:43.4	We're pretty busy.
0:44.6	Inventing and, you know, thinking about things.
0:46.5	It's pretty tough.
0:47.1	Thinking and inventing, but this isn't an invention podcast unless the inventions are
0:51.3	the inventions of our minds in discussing behavior analytic research,
0:55.6	which is actually what we talk about every other week on our show.
0:59.3	I don't believe in the mind.
0:59.7	What is the mind, Rob?
1:01.2	I'm speaking of it as an illusion to other inferior works about writing.
1:05.8	It's a metaphor, guys, it's a metaphor.
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