Episode 9 - Choice w/ Dr. Alan Karsina
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2016
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Dr Allen Karsina drops by to share his research on choice. We review some key facts in the literature on choice, how manipulations to choice-making schedules affect the value of choice, and whether we should believe the hype about choice. Don't forget to listen all the way through to hear about exciting research using our family members as participants and for a delightful poetry jam to round out the episode. You chose to subscribe.
Articles discussed this episode:
Karsina, A., Thompson, R.H., & Rodriguez, N.M. (2011). Effects of a history of differential reinforcement on preference for choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 95, 189-202. doi:10.1901/jeab.2011.95-189
Fisher, W.W., Thompson, R.H., Piazza, C.C., Crosland, K., & Gotjen, D. (1997). On the relative reinforcing effects of choice and differential consequences. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 30, 423-438. doi:10.1901/jaba.197.30-423
Tiger, J.H., Hanley, G.P., & Hernandez, E. (2006). An evaluation of the value of choice with preschool children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 39, 1-16. doi:10.1901/jaba.2006.158-04
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me are my fabulous co-hosts. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Diana. |
| 0:25.3 | And I'm Jackie. |
| 0:26.3 | And we also have a very special guest joining us tonight. |
| 0:30.3 | Please welcome. |
| 0:31.7 | Hi, I'm Alan. |
| 0:33.2 | Hey, Alan. |
| 0:34.8 | What up, Alan? |
| 0:35.7 | Hey, Alan. |
| 0:36.8 | So, Alan, thanks for coming to join us tonight to talk about our topic this week, which is choice. Well, thank you for inviting me. Of course. I'm glad you chose to come. You didn't say your topic of choice? Choice? Choice? Our topic of choice, choice. The opportunity is past. So we invited Alan, Dr. Alan Carsoncina, if you couldn't guess, to talk to us about his article, |
| 0:59.8 | effects of a history of differential reinforcement on preference for choice from the Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, |
| 1:07.0 | but also to talk generally about some other articles on choice and what is choice and some |
| 1:12.5 | some interesting ways that we can use choice in our work with individuals so i think we'll start |
| 1:21.0 | off with the big question what exactly does it mean when we talk about choice |
| 1:25.6 | hmm good question rob take it away allan does it mean when we talk about choice? |
| 1:29.5 | Good question, Rob. |
| 1:31.3 | Take it away, Alan. |
| 1:35.6 | Well, actually, that was the question that I was going to bring up to all of you. |
| 1:36.0 | Oh. |
| 1:37.8 | I've turned the tapes. |
| 1:43.3 | It's something that, obviously, I've been thinking about for quite a while, |
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