Behavior Analysis & Therapy Program, Southern Illinois University - Devoted to empirically-based development and application of learning principles to human needs that arise from developmental, psychological, social, or medical disabilities. The graduate of the program is prepared to assess the needs of individuals, assist those individuals in acquiring skills to maximize their capabilities, evaluate effectiveness of interventions, and teach other service providers techniques for assessment, training, and evaluation.
Behavior Analysis at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - UWM offers an MS specialization in behavior analysis as well as a Ph.D. with a concentration in conditioning and learning. The behavior analytic faculty include: Alan Baron, Marshall Dermer, Jay Moore, and Douglas Woods. The department provides assistantships for doctoral students.
Behavior Analysis Dept., U. of North Texas - Masters program. Preparation for work in schools, universities, human service settings, business and industry, and government agencies. Clients range from children with autism, to students with academic skills deficits, to entire companies that are having employee performance problems.
Behavior Analysis Graduate Program at California State University, Stanislaus - Offers a Masters of Science Degree in Behavior Analysis. 52 unit program has courses in Behavioral Assessment, Conceptual Issues in Behavior Analysis, Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Behavior Analysis in the Classroom, Child Clinical and others. There are several paid internships available. The Behavior Analysis program has 5 tenured faculty who earned their PhD degrees from well known behavioral departments (Western Michigan University, SUNY at Stonybrook and West Virginia University). Applications are accepted twice per academic year.
Behavior Analysis Training System - Home of BATS. The academic program headed by Dr. Malott at Western Michigan University that focuses on the training and development of Behavior Analysts.
Department of Applied Behavior Analysis - Masters program chaired by Dr. Charles Merbitz. Practicum opportunities include Chicago, national, international sites. Emphases within ABA include Precision Teaching, Verbal Behavior, CABAS. Doctoral program beginning 2009.
Experimental Analysis of Behavior graduate program at UCSD - The Ph. D. graduate program at the University of California, San Diego trains behavior analysts for careers in both the experimental analysis of behavior and in applied behavior analysis. The program emphasizes individual research.
Florida State U., Panama City - MS in Psychology with a specialty in Applied Behavior Analysis. Graduates of this program are prepared for employment as Certified Behavior Analysts in private, community, and state agencies. A minimum of 36 hours of psychology courses is required including six semester hours of behavior analysis practicum. This is a part-time, non-thesis program with a comprehensive exam at the end. Completion time for the degree will depend on when the student enters the program in relation to the course offerings.
St. Cloud State University: Masters in Applied Behavior Analysis - The Master of Science in applied psychology: behavior analysis program offers academic and professional training in applied behavior analysis, with applications in areas such as developmental disabilities, behavior therapy, addictive behavior, behavioral pharmacology, health psychology, organizational behavior analysis, or the experimental analysis of behavior.
University of Florida Department of Psychology - The area of Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) functions within the Department of Psychology to provide instruction and training, and to conduct research. Students are offered instruction and mentorship from faculty and affiliated faculty, and may choose to emphasize programs of study and research in various areas of behavior analysis including behavioral pharmacology, choice, developmental disabilities, behavioral medicine, and instructional technology, among others. Research laboratories are located both on and off campus and involve applied and basic research with humans and nonhumans.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County - The UMBC program for training applied behavior analysts will be responsive to the increasing call for such services and fills a gap in the availability of such programs in the mid-Atlantic region. The UMBC Psychology Department will be developing and maintaining this program together with the Behavioral Psychology Department at the Kennedy-Krieger Institute.
University of Nevada's Psychology Department - UNR Psychology Department has had a long history in behavior analysis beginning with Willard F. Day who founded and edited the journal Behaviorism here.
Western Michigan University: Doctoral Programs in Applied and Experimental Analysis of Behavior - The Experimental Analysis of Behavior Doctoral Program is designed to prepare students for a career in research or college teaching. Students in this program spend much of their time engaging in research with the support of faculty mentors. Research interests of faculty in the program include behavioral pharmacology, learning processes, and verbal behavior.
William S. Verplanck
- Dr. Verplank has spent 50 years doing behavior analysis, research, and a little psychophysics, in the lab and in the real world.
Animal Trainer's Guide to Operant Conditioning - Describes the science and terminology of operant conditioning and how it can be used in animal training. Explores the use of conditioned reinforcers and "clicker training", too.
Behavior Analysts, Inc. - Behavior Analysts, Inc., seeks to provide high-quality, effective interventions for children with developmental disabilities, and to provide training to other professionals in the delivery of these services.
Behaviorism Tutorial: Athabasca University - Free online introductory tutorial on Behaviorism. Focuses on the distinction between methodological and radical behaviourism.
Behaviorists For Social Responsibility - Contingencies shape and maintain behavior that affects individual choices, social justice, and environmental protection. The search for contingencies that enhance these outcomes, instead of ignoring them, is a concern of this site.
Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies - Rich set of resources for research, professional advancement, and applications to education, industry, and special populations. Sections on aging, autism, parenting, behavioral safety, organizational behavior, pets and animals, and verbal behavior.
Joint Control - Abstracts of published articles and presented papers on joint control. Highly technical. Application of Skinner's concepts of verbal behavior to a rigorous, behavioral description of those human performances commonly ascribed to hypothesized psychological processes of perception, cognition, memory, problem solving, and goal orientation.
Los Horcones: A Walden Two community - A Walden Two community (after the book by Fred Skinner) founded in 1973. Los Horcones is an experimental culture. It functions as a social laboratory where cultural practices or macrocontingencies are scientifically studied from a behavioral analytic perspective.
Positive Reinforcement: A Self-Instructional Exercise - Online tutorial on positive reinforcement. Also serves as an example of the self-instructional "distance learning" exercises used in many Athabasca University (Canada) courses.