MABA 2008 was held October 3-4 at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois.

 

2008 Program

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-8:45 Opening Welcome

8:45-9:30 Social Validity Assessments of Behavior-Change Procedures used with Young Children: A Review Nicole Heal (Southern Illinois University)

9:30-10:15 Using Relative Measures to Identify Stimuli that Alter Immediate and Subsequent Levels of Stereotypy: A Further Analysis of Motivating Operations John Rapp, Marc Lanovaz, & Sarah Fletcher (St. Cloud State University)

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:15 Why Behavior Analysts Can No Longer Ignore Genetics and Neuroscience Maria G. Valdovinos (Drake University)

11:15-12:00 Drug Tolerance: Contingencies Matter Christine Hughes (University of North Carolina Wilmington)

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-2:15 An Analysis of Command Types and Compliance During Personal Care Between Nursing Home Staff and Residents with Cognitive Impairment Jeffrey Buchanan (Minnesota State University, Mankato)

2:15-3:00 The Behavioral Pharmacology of Salvinorin A, a Naturally Occurring Kappa Opioid Agonist Lisa Baker (Western Michigan University)

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:00 The Human Operant Laboratory in Translational Research or, Basic to Applied and Back Again: A Collaborationist's Tale Dean Williams (University of Kansas)

4:00-4:45 Taking Behavioral Safety to the Office Nicole Gravina (Roosevelt University)

5:00 Business Meeting & Poster Session

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-9:15 Behavioral Safety on the Farm Mark Dixon (Southern Illinois University)

9:15-10:00 Do Shared Stimulus Functions Generate Equivalence Relations? Manish Vaidya (University of North Texas)

10:00-10:45 Instruction Based on Stimulus Equivalence: Teaching Well, Generatively, and Accountably Thomas Critchfield (Illinois State University)

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-11:30 Student Paper Competition Winner 
 Examining delay discounting of hypothetical and real money Nicholas Mui Ker Lik

11:30-12:15 Understudied Intervention Procedures in the Early Behavioral Treatment of Autism James Carr (Auburn University)

12:15-12:30 Closing Remarks (incoming president)