Session 8 Jim Johnston on the History of ABA
The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria
Matt Cicoria
4.8 ā¢ 648 Ratings
šļø 24 June 2016
ā±ļø 56 minutes
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Summary
In this session of The Behavioral Observations Podcast, Dr. Jim Johnston, BCBA-D, joins me for a conversation about the history of contemporary Behavior Analysis. Jim is uniquely equipped to provide this perspective, having held presidentialĀ positions in all of our flagship professional organizations (e.g., the Association for Behavior Analysis International, the Association for Professional Behavior Analysts, the Behavior Analysis Certification Board, etc...).
As a young graduate student at Auburn University, I had the opportunity to work in Jim's laboratory at the Institute for Biological Detection Systems, where we conducted federally contracted research on the olfactory capability of explosive and drug detecting dogsĀ (perhaps a story for another podcast). I was also fortunate to have Jim supervise my Master's Thesis, so it is a treat to have him on the podcast for a long overdue chat.
Jim'sĀ academic and other professional accomplishments are too great to list here, but Jim's website, www.talkingaboutbehavior.com, offers this summary:
Dr. Johnston received his doctorate from the University of Florida in 1970 and held faculty positions at Georgia State University, the University of Florida, and Auburn University. He has published both laboratory and field research with both human and non-human species on a variety of topics. He has longstanding interests in the area of developmental disabilities and founded the Masterās Program in Applied Behavior Analysis in Developmental Disabilities at Auburn University. He has served as editor of The Behavior Analyst and on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, among others.
In addition to discussing the development of our field, we talk about the challenges associated with the rapid growth of practitioners and how the 4th edition of Strategies and Tactics for Behavioral Research is coming along. Jim concludes with some sage advice for new practitioners.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Behavioral Observations podcast with Matt Secoria, session number eight. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior analysts. |
| 0:19.9 | Now here's your host, Matt Secoria. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey everybody, hope you're having a good day. Thanks for checking in to another session |
| 0:29.6 | of the behavioral observations podcast. Today I have in store for you a very special episode, |
| 0:34.6 | and if you're a member of my email list, you already know who's |
| 0:37.5 | coming up. For everyone else, however, in today's episode I talk with Dr. Jim Johnson, my major |
| 0:44.1 | professor from my days in graduate school at Auburn University. Jim's contributions to the field |
| 0:49.3 | are too great to mention here, but allow me to list just a couple of them before we get going. |
| 0:54.1 | First of all, he's apparently pretty good at being the president of things. |
| 0:58.0 | For example, he's had presidential positions at our flagship organizations, |
| 1:02.0 | such as the Association for Behavior Analysis. |
| 1:05.0 | This was before it was ABAI, it was just ABA back in the day, |
| 1:09.0 | the Behavior Analysis Certification Board and the Association |
| 1:12.3 | for Professional Behavior Analyst. |
| 1:14.8 | As an aside, I was one of Jim's graduate students and had the chance to see him deliver |
| 1:18.8 | the ABA presidential address, which was pretty cool for being a impressionable 23-year-old |
| 1:26.2 | kid at the time. |
| 1:37.3 | In addition to those contributions to the field, he's also well known for his, some of the textbooks that he's written. |
| 1:39.3 | He, along with Hank Penny Packer, is the author of the classic strategies and tactics for behavioral |
| 1:46.5 | research. Personally, I own the second edition of it, and I still, to this day, encounter |
| 1:51.7 | situations where I pull it off the bookshelf and reference something in it. In today's |
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