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The History of Behavior Analysis

Where do YOU fit in?

First, who is the most famous REAL psychologist?

See page 56 in your textbook. (4th

Paragraph)

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B.F. Skinner  Wrote Science and Human

Behavior in 1953.

“Discovered” Operant

Conditioning and the

principles of behavior using

Thorndike’s Law of Effect.

Studied at Harvard University

Wrote Behavior of Organisms

in 1938.

Taught at Indiana University,

the University of Minnesota,

and Harvard University.

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Fred Keller 

Went to Harvard Graduate

School and became close friends

with BF Skinner.

Wrote Principles of Psychology,

an introductory psychologytextbook based on Skinner’s

work.

Created Personalized System

of Instruction (PSI) in which

study objectives, frequent

quizzes, and mastery levelcriteria are utilized.

Taught at Columbia University, in Brazil, and Arizona StateUniversity.

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Jack Michael studied at UCLA.

By chance, read a copy of Skinner’s Science and

Human Behavior to help him

prepare to teach anintroductory psychology

course at the University of 

Kansas in 1955.

Used Keller’s Principles of Psychology textbook for that course.

 After Kansas University, he taught at the University of 

Houston and met Lee Meyerson. Jack supervised Teodoro Ayllon’s Ph.D. dissertation on “psychotic talk” in 1959.

Jack Michael

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Check out page 185 in your textbook.

(Bottom left-hand corner)

 After teaching at Houston, Jack moved on to Arizona

State University. ASU was affectionately known as

“Skinner’s Desert Fortress” due to it’s geography andbehavioral approach to the study of psychology.

 Among the graduate students Jack taught at Arizona State

University were: W. Scott Wood, Albert Neal, Brian

Jacobson, Dick Powers, Jon Bailey, and others.

Jack Michael left ASU in 1967 and began teachingbehavior analysis at Western Michigan University

(WMU) until 2003.

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 Around same time, a young

Dick Malott was studying atColumbia University. He

graduated with his Ph.D. in

1963.

He began teaching

behavior analysis at

Western Michigan

University in 1969.

This is NOT a young Dick Malott, but it IS Dick Malott!

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The classic behavioral

psychology textbook,Principles of Psychology,

was no longer being

printed, so Dick Malott andothers wrote what was to

become Principles of 

Behavior in 1967.

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In the late 1960’s, Al Neal, a former ASU graduate

student of Jack’s began setting up a behavioral

program at Central Michigan University.

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Carl Johnson studied under Dick Malott and others at

Western Michigan University, and he began teaching at

Central Michigan University in the 1980s.

He met his wife,

Sharon, atMichigan State

University.

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In 1994, a young community college transfer student,

by chance, enrolled in PSY 384 Behavior Analysis at

Central Michigan University.

The course was taught by Al Neal with help from a

graduate assistant, Eric Burkholder.

The textbook used was Malott’s Elementary Principles

of Behavior 3rd

Edition.

There was a rat lab and the student went on to

become a teaching assistant for the course

becoming friends with Eric, Susan, Sean, and others.

We all went to our first Association of Behavior Analysis

convention in Washington DC in 1995.(S-dee: Jack Michael and “Extinction!”)

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(I put individual student pictures

here arranged in the same waythey sit in our classroom.)

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Where can you go from here?

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Eastern Connecticut University Dr. Fitzgerald

Southern Connecticut State University Dr. James Mazur 

UCONN- Waterbury campus Dr. Kim Treadwell

Institute of Professional Practice

Temple University -Philadelphia

Northeastern, UMASS Amherst, May Institute,

Columbia Teacher’s College, SUNY Stonybrook,

Queen’s College

Behavior Analyst Board Certification

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http://www.behavior.org/

http://www.abainternational.org/

http://www.bacb.com/