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2002 MABA Convention Program
Kalamazoo, MI


Friday, October 4

7:30 to 8:15 Registration

8:00 Welcome: MABA President Anthony J. Cuvo (Southern Illinois University)

8:15 to 9:45 Uncovering the Dynamics of Organizational Behavior Management
CHAIR: Jason Otto (Western Michigan University)
Maria Malott (Western Michigan University) Organizational behavior management in human services
John Austin, Alicia Alvero and Don Rohn (Western Michigan University) Studies in behavior-based safety: Safety-related self talk and behavioral
reactivity to observer presence
Dick Malott (Western Michigan University) Behavioral systems analysis: An application to higher education
Alyce Dickinson (Western Michigan university) Individual monetary incentive systems: The power of ratio schedules

9:45 to 11:15 Behavioral Pharmacology and Toxicology
CHAIR: Jamie Drake (Southern Illinois University)
Erin R. Rasmussen (College of Charleston) Drugs, aging, and environmental enrichment: Modulators in methylmercury toxicity
Mark LeSage (Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation) Pharmacological and environmental modification of stimulant drug
self-administration in nonhumans
James Woods (University of Michigan) Conditioned reinforcing effects of stimuli associated with drug
reinforcers in monkeys

11:15 to 11:25 Break

11:25 to 12:25 Bridging Basic and Applied Issues in the Study of Choice
CHAIR: Caio Miguel (Western Michigan University)
Wayne Fisher (Marcus Institute) Analyzing the reinforcing effects of "freedom of choice"
Cathleen Piazza (Marcus Institute) Using choice principles and preference assessment methods to treat food selectivity in children

12:25 to 1:45 Lunch break

1:45 to 2:45 Contemporary Issues in Stimulus Control
CHAIR: James Soldner (Southern Illinois University)
Manish Vaidya (University of North Texas) The role of component discriminations in the development of equivalence relations
Peter Urcuioli (Purdue University) Acquired equivalence classes: Origins and mechanisms of within-class generalization

2:45 to 4:15 Emerging Research in Applied Behavior Analysis
CHAIR: Daniel Feinup (Illinois State University)
James E. Carr (Western Michigan University) On the relation between applied behavior analysis and positive behavioral support
Kevin Klatt (University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire) Behavioral intervention for ADHD
Thomas S. Critchfield, Rebecca Haley, Jorie Colbert, and Benjamin Sabo (Illinois State University) A half-century of scalloping: Pervasive procrastination by the United States Congress

4:15 to 4:30 Invited Address: MABA Student Paper Contest Winner
CHAIR: Douglas Woods (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
Daniel M. Feinup (Southern Illinois University)
Advisor: Mark R. Dixon
Acquisition and maintenance of visual-visual and visual-olfactory equivalence classes 

4:30 to 5:00 MABA Business Meeting
CHAIR: Ruth Anne Rehfeldt (Southern Illinois University)
  • election of officers
  • proposed bylaws change
  • future conventions and initiatives

5:00 to 7:00 Poster Session and Social Hour
HOST: Kevin Klatt (UW-Eau Claire)
POSTER JUDGE: Michael Perone (West Virginia University)

7:00 Dinner break

9:00 Reception at the home of Jack Michael and Alyce Dickinson. Directions provided at the meeting. All are invited.


Saturday, October 5

8:15 to 8:30 Registration

8:30 to 10:00 Behavior and Philosophy
CHAIR: Jack M. Michael (Western Michigan University)
Edward K. Morris (University of Kansas) The theory of truth in contextualism: Just what is "successful working"?
Linda J. Hayes (University of Nevada - Reno) Romantic love
Jay Moore (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) A behavior-analytic perspective on ethics and morality

10:00 to 12:00 Issues in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
CHAIRS: Dana Dahman and Brian Kangas (Southern Illinois University)
Amy Odum and Christopher A. Barnes (University of New Hampshire) The effects of delayed reinforcement on behavioral variability and
repetition
J. Gregor Fetterman (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis) When pigeon cognition is better than human cognition: Lessons for
comparative animal cognition
William Timberlake (Indiana University) Foraging strategies in radial mazes in Norway rats and kangaroo rats
    Joel Myerson and Leonard Green (Washington University) Discounting delayed and probabilistic outcomes: Processes and traits

12:00 to 12:10 Break

12:10 to 1:40 Bridging Basic and Applied Issues in Clinical Behavior Analysis
CHAIR: Kimberly Zlomke (Southern Illinois University)
Kelly Wilson (University of Mississippi) The role of exposure and defusion in ACT: Direct and relational conditioning processes in behavior change
Wayne R. Fuqua and M.Marroquin-Loiselle (Western Michigan University) Stimulus control issues in clinical behavior analysis: Signal detection and stimulus function issues in the analysis of acquaintance rape
Scott Gaynor (Western Michigan University) Incorporating clinical behavior analysis into cognitive-behavioral therapy for depressed adolescents

1:40 to 2:10 Presidential Address: Anthony J. Cuvo (Southern Illinois University)

2:10 Closing Comments: MABA President-Elect Wayne Fuqua, plus a multimedia presentation of unforgettable moments from MABA 2002, courtesy of Dick Malott.