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Baer, Donald M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1991
This paper argues that behavior analysis is not technological to a fault, but rather has a faulty technology by being incomplete. The paper examines reinforcers and punishers that result from the outcomes of either (1) striving for better experimental control, or (2) inventing theories to explain why current control is imperfect. (JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Reinforcement
Baer, Donald M. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1993
This commentary on EC 608 301 points out that devotion to the natural science canon of experimental proof in the area of generality testing requires proof procedures that are difficult, expensive, or impossible, but adopting a different canon of proof will not produce the desired certainty about the accuracy of the answer. (JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Behavioral Science Research, Cost Effectiveness