The MABA 2009 convention was held October 9-10 in Davenport, Iowa. Thanks to all who participated!

 

2009 Program

Friday (10/9/2009):

7:30     Registration opens – Coffee available in the conference room

8:30     Opening remarks – MABA President Kevin Klatt

8:45     Laboratory Explorations of Response Classes and Extinction, John Borrero (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

9:15     Discounting of Money and Other Outcomes, Dan Holt (University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire)  

9:45     Delay Discounting and Psychostimulants in Rats
Jennifer Perry (Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation)

10:15   Break

10:30   An Evaluation of Variables Affecting Response Allocation Among Mand Topographies, Joel Ringdahl (University of Iowa)

11:00   Delay Discounting by Humans and Other Animals: Does the Species Matter?, Leonard Green (Washington University)

12:00   Lunch on your own

1:30     Recognition of Student Paper Award Winner
            Jonathan Miller (University of Houston – Clear Lake)

1:35     Gain and Pain in the Prader-Willi Syndrome, Brian Iwata (University of Florida)

2:30     What was John B. Watson’s Childrearing Advice, and Why?, Edward Morris (University of Kansas)

3:00     Break

3:15     Some emergent relations of equivalence and a theory of pigeons' equivalence-class formation, Peter Urcuioli (Purdue University)

3:45     The Role of Abstraction in the Development of Early Reading Skills, Kate Saunders (University of Kansas)

4:15     Exploring the Effects of Effort on Subsequent Reinforcer Value, Iser DeLeon (Kennedy Krieger Institute)      

5:00     MABA Business Meeting & Poster Preparation

5:30     Poster Session
            Award Winners announced at 7:00 pm

Saturday:

8:30     Registration opens

8:45     Extensions of Delay Fading During Differential Reinforcement Programs, Henry Roane (Munroe-Meyer Institute)

9:15     Motivation and Risk Taking:  How Evolutionary Ecology can Help Us Understand Human Risky Choice, Cynthia Pietras (Western Michigan University)

9:45     Functional Assessment of Barriers to Learning: Linking Assessment and Treatment, Tiffany Kodak (Munroe-Meyer Institute)

10:15   Break

10:30   Coupling: A Quantitative Account of Response-Reinforcer Relations, Mark Reilly (Central Michigan University)

11:00   Implications of Resurgence for Applied Research and Practice, Claire St. Peter-Pipkin (West Virginia University)  

11:30   Roots of Analogy: Relational Matching-to-Sample Behavior in Pigeons, Baboons, and People, Edward Wasserman (University of Iowa)

12:00   Applied Behavioral Pharmacology: An Emerging Field, John Northup (University of Iowa)      

12:30   Closing Remarks – 2010 MABA President Mark Dixon (Southern Illinois University)