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Scientific Standards of Psychological Practice: Issues and Recommendations
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Resurgence of derived stimulus relations
(1996)Resurgence has been shown in human and nonhuman operant behavior, but not in derived relational responses. The present study examined this issue. Twenty-three undergraduates were trained to make conditional discriminations ... -
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Criticisms of relational frame theory: Implications for a behavior analytic account of derived stimulus relations
(1996)Two recent publications by Boelens and Sidman examined the weaknesses in Relational Frame Theory This paper responds to those criticisms. We argue that Relational Frame Theory offers a very similar but more general account ... -
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A comparison of response covariation viewed idiothetically and nomothetically
(1996)Twenty males viewed erotic slides and photographs of females and males on four different occasions while two physiological and five subjective measures of sexual arousal were taken. The relations among these measures were ... -
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Psychology's drug problem - Do we need a fix or should we just say no?
(1996)Five contextual factors give rise to the proposal that psychologists secure prescription privileges: (a) the historical overattachment of applied psychology to psychotherapy; (b) the oversupply of psychotherapists; (c) the ... -
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Creating the empirical clinician
(1996)A wide variety of methods have been used to encourage competent, scientifically based practice. Exhortation, training, and licensing have all proved themselves useless. It may be more helpful to focus on validating procedures ... -
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Should the behavioral sciences become more pragmatic? The case for functional contextualism in research on human behavior
(1996)Although societal need for behavioral science research is enormous, current research practices seem to be inefficient vehicles for producing knowledge that guides practical action. Many of our most popular theories provide ... -
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Experiential avoidance and behavioral disorders: A functional dimensional approach to diagnosis and treatment
(1996)Syndromal classification is a well-developed diagnostic system but has failed to deliver on its promise of the identification of functional pathological processes. Functional analysis is tightly connected to treatment but ... -
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Why managed care is ripe for market-oriented behavior therapy - Since the operant chamber: Is behavior therapy still thinking in boxes? Commentary
(1997)Chorpita (1997) has rightly diagnosed a significant problem. In the 1980s and 1990s behavior therapy has progressed, in part, because it embraced the technological model of treatment development, but that model cannot take ... -
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Technology, theory, and the alleviation of human suffering: We still have such a long way to go
(1997)Behavior therapy promised more adequate behavior change technologies through scientific validation, more adequate theories of behavior change, and widespread social betterment and alleviation of human suffering. The promise ... -
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Cognition in behavior therapy: Agreements and differences
(1997)The issue of cognition has often been divisive among behavior therapists. Typically the debate has centered around the causal status of cognition. Cognitive psychologists have argued for the causal efficacy of cognition, ... -
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The trouble with language: Experiential avoidance, rules, and the nature of verbal events
(1997)Experiential avoidance is the attempt to escape or avoid certain private experiences, such as particular feelings, memories, behavioral predispositions, or thoughts. In this article, we discuss evidence that experiential ... -
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Derived stimulus relations produce mediated and episodic priming
(1998)If derived stimulus relations can serve as a beginning behavioral model of semantic meaning, many of the cognitive findings shown with semantic relations should apply to derived stimulus relations. The present study examined ... -
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Moral behavior and the development of verbal regulation
(1998)The present paper examines the relationship between the development of moral behavior and the development of verbal regulatory processes. Relational frame theory and the distinctions among pliance, tracking, and augmenting ... -
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Why behavior analysts should study emotion: The example of anxiety
(1998)Historically, anxiety has been a dominant subject in mainstream psychology but an incidental or even insignificant one in behavior analysis. We discuss several reasons for this discrepancy. We follow with a behavior-analytic ...