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)

 

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MABA 2007 was held October 5-6, 2007 at the Country Inn and Suites-Milwaukee West.

Thanks to all who attended and participated!

 

2007 MABA Program

Friday

8:00-8:30         Registration

8:30-8:45         Opening Welcome: Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, Southern Illinois University, and   President of MABA

Early Morning Session

8:45-9:30         Talk 1: Jay Moore, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Choice and Reinforcer
                          Delay

9:30-10:15       Talk 2: Tal Yarkoni, Washington University: What Can Functional Neuroimaging Tell Us About Decision Making?

10:15-10:30     Break

Late Morning Session

10:30-11:15     Talk 3: Doug Woods, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Bringing Behavior Analysis to Neurologists & Psychiatrists: Basic and Applied Work on Tourette Syndrome

11:15-12:00     Talk 4: David Wacker, University of Iowa: Long-Term Maintenance of Functional Communication Training

12:00-1:30       Lunch Break

Early Afternoon Session

1:30-2:15         Talk 5: Linda LeBlanc, Western Michigan University: Advanced Language of Young Children: The Role of Intraverbals and Problem-Solving

2:15-3:00         Talk 6: David Jewett, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: Effects of drugs, neuropeptides, and foods on the discriminative stimulus effects associated with acute food restriction.

3:00-3:15         Break

Late Afternoon Session

3:15-4:00         Talk 7: Valeri A. Farmer-Dougan, Illinois State University: Individual Differences in Reward Sensitivity during Paired and Group Foraging: Does Competitiveness Predict Sensitivity to Reward?

4:00-4:45         Talk 8: Leonard Green, Washington University: Choice, Impulsivity, and Self Control.

End of Day

5:00-                Poster session, Business meeting

Saturday

8:00-8:30         Registration

Morning Session

8:30-9:15         Talk 9: John C. Borrero, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Assessment of Stimulus Value in Applied Contexts

9:15-10:00       Talk 10: Henry Roane, University of Nebraska: Assessment and Treatment of Idiosyncratic Response Relations in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

10:00-10:45     Talk 11: Jennifer McComas, University of Minnesota: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Generalized Effects of Brief Experimental Analyses of Academic Performance

10:45-11:00     Break

Midday Session

11:00-11:45     Talk 12: (Student Award Winner – To Be Announced): (Title to Be Announced)

11:45-12:30     Talk 13: Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, Southern Illinois University: Assessing Relational Learning Deficits in Perspective-Taking in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders

12:30-12:45     Closing Remarks:  Jim Carr, Western Michigan University, and Incoming President of MABA

12:45-             Lunch (provided by MABA and served on-site)

 

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