School and Behavioral Psychology

With this important work, written around current behavioral psychology research and practice as it applies to school-age children, the authors address both experimental and applied issues in the assessments and interventions used with this population.
Among the issues examined are the legal, bureaucratic, and psychological complications involving the newly mandated Functional Assessment law. Included with this book is a software package designed specifically to provide tools to conduct and calculate outcomes for functional assessment procedures on notebook computers.

1 Autonomic Learning.- The Fight or Flight Syndrome.- The Autonomic Nervous System.- Extrapolation in Psychology.- School Psychology and Behavior Analysis.- 2 Lucy in the Sky: Learning Without Language.- Natural Selection and Selection by Consequences.- A Few Basic Definitions.- 3 The Evolution of Language and Rule-Governed Behavior.- The Evolution of Words and Rules.- Rule-Governed Behavior and the Premack Principle.- Types of Rule-Following Behavior.- Rule-Governed Behavior and Schedules of Reinforcement.- Masking Subjects.- 4 An Experimental Analysis of Rule-Governed Behavior and Human-Computer Interactions.- Superstitions.- Superstitions during Computer-Interactive Math.- Self-Generated Superstitions During Second-Order Response-Independent Schedules.- Shaping Human Verbal Behavior.- Self-Assessment as a Learned Reinforcer: An Experimental Analysis.- Self-Assessment With and Without Feedback.- 5 Computer-Interactive Functional Assessments.- Constructs.- Functional Assessment.- Public Schools' Interpretations of Functional Assessments.- Extended Functional Assessment Strategies for the Public School.- Descriptive Analysis: An Alternative Form of Functional Assessment.- Running Functional Assessments in a Descriptive Analysis Format.- FOCAL Point Functional Assessments with Notebook Computers.- Installing FOCALPoint for Windows 95/98/NT and Above 142 Running Partial-Interval Observations on FOCAL Point.- 6 Learning to Behave Yourself.- Functional Assessments and Prescriptive Interventions.- Group-contingencies and Peer Attention.- Under Different Conditions with Different Students.- Rule-Following in the Absence of Supervision.- Shaping Rules for Self-Management and Social Skills.- Epilogue.