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2001 Meeting
Bloomington, IL


Friday, November 2

7:30 Registration (coffee provided)

8:15 Welcome MABA Operations Coordinator Ruth Anne Rehfeldt

Moderated discussion to follow the session.
8:30 to 10:20 Experimental Analysis of Social Behavior
Abstracts
CHAIR: Eric Jacobs (Southern Illinois University)
STUDENT MODERATOR: Jimmy Anderson (Unuversity of Wisconsin - Eau Claire)
Gregory J. Madden, Jennifer Gross, and Krista Kreuger (UW-Eau Claire) The ideal free distribution and group matching
Forest Baker (Illinois Wesleyan University) and Howard Rachlin (SUNY-Stony Brook) Self-control by pigeons in the prisoners dilemma
Cynthia Pietras (UT Health Science Center at Houston) Environmental variability and choice in humans: Evaluating risk-sensitive and social foraging models
J. Scott Jordan (Illinois State University) External constraints on theory of mind

10:20 Break (coffee, soft drinks, and pastries provided; Registration table open)

Brief Q&A to follow each paper.
10:30 to 11:30 Issues Affecting the Discipline of Behavior Analysis
CHAIR: Tom Critchfield (Illinois State University)
STUDENT MODERATOR: Natalie Bratcher (Illinois State University)
Larry Morse (UW-Eau Claire) National certification of Behavior Analysts: An agent for significant change in our undergraduate and graduate programs in psychology
Larry A. Alferink (Illinois State University) A place for behavior analysis in APA, and a place for APA in behavior analysis

11:30 Lunch (on your own)

Moderated discussion to follow the session.
1:15 to 2:45 Clinical Behavior Analysis
CHAIR: Linda LeBlanc (Western Michigan University)
STUDENT MODERATOR: April Stalcheski (Bradley University)
Douglas W. Woods (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) Habit reversal as a treatment for vocal tics in children with Tourette's Syndrome
Karla J. Doepke (Illinois State University) The role of parental influence in children's eyewitness testimony: Durability of effects across interviews
Blake M. Lancaster & Linda A. LeBlanc (Western Michigan University) Functional analysis of bizarre speech in dually diagnosed adults

Brief Q & A to follow each paper.
2:45 to 3:55 Behavioral Neuroscience and Pharmacology
CHAIR: Forrest Files (Bradley University)
STUDENT MODERATOR: Stacy Buchanan (Southern Illinois University)
Diana Walker (University of Chicago Medical School) Reinforcing and self-reported effects of nitrous oxide in non-drug-abusing
volunteers
Valeri Farmer-Dougan (Illinois State University) TBA

4:00 to 5:00 MABA Business Meeting
CHAIR: Ruth Anne Rehfeldt (Southern Illinois University)
  • election of President and President-Elect
  • discussion of bylaws and governance issues
  • discussion of future conventions

5:30 to 7:30 Poster Session and Social Hour
HOST: Greg Madden (UW-Eau Claire)

Click here to see poster titles

7:30 Dinner (on your own)


Saturday, November 3

8:00 Registration (coffee provided)

Brief Q&A to follow each paper.
8:30 to 10:00 Developments in the Behavioral Analysis of Gambling
CHAIR: Mark R. Dixon (Southern Illinois University)
STUDENT
MODERATOR: Jennifer Lifschitz (Bradley University)
Jeff Weatherly (University of North Dakota) Identifying and (hopefully) overcoming some methodological problems with conducting gambling research in a laboratory setting
Anthony J. Cuvo (Southern Illinois University) People with illness and disability: Gambling for a cure
V. Thomas Mawhinney
(Indiana University South Bend)
A cultural analysis of legalized gambling in the United States
Mark R. Dixon (Southern Illinois University) A microanalysis of slot and poker players: Beyond contingency control?

10:00 Break (coffee and soft drinks provided)

Brief Q&A to follow each paper.
10:15 to 11:45 Application & Extension of the Matching Law
Abstracts
CHAIR: Tom Critchfield (Illinois State University)
STUDENT MODERATOR: Bethany Raiff, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire)
Thomas S. Critchfield (Illinois State University), Elliott Paletz (Auburn University), & Ken MacAleese (University of Nevada-Reno) Punishment in human choice: Comparing models with roots in one-factor and two-factor theory
James Dougan (Illinois Wesleyan University) and Valeri Farmer-Dougan (Illinois State University) Quantitative behavior analysis and environmental enrichment in the zoo: A perfect match?
Cheryl L. Ecott (Auburn University) Superstition quantified

11:45 Break (light lunks and beverages provided)

Brief Q&A to follow each paper.
12:00 to 1:30 Current Research in Applied Behavior Analysis
CHAIR: Jim Carr (Western Michigan University)
STUDENT MODERATOR: Robin Holmes (Southern Illinois University)
Linda LeBlanc (Western Michigan University) Perspective-taking in children diagnosed with autism
Ruth Anne Rehfeldt (Southern Illinois University) & Lisette Radich (University of Nevada-Reno) Use of signalled delays to establish preference for unreliable reinforcement in adults with dual diagnoses
John Austin, Alicia M. Alvero, & Joseph R. Sasson (Western Michigan University) Analyzing the observer effect in behavior-based ergonomic safety
Caio Miguel, Jack Michael, & Jim Carr (Western Michigan University) Effects of a pairing procedure on the vocal behavior of children diagnosed with autism

1:30 Announcements and Closing Comments