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General information on and description of performance management, plus articles, newsletter, book reviews, links to international performance management consultancies.
http://www.p-management.com/

University of South Florida's programs; resources in behavior analysis.
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Behavior Analysis  Analysis home page at the University Of South Florida Statement of Purpose Newsletter Last modified December 2, 1997...
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/behavior/behavior.html

Dr. Verplank has spent 50 years doing behavior analysis, research, and a little psychophysics, in the lab and in the real world.
http://web.utk.edu/~wverplan/

Article written "to strip the confusion surrounding behaviour therapy and to explain its scientific base." Not entirely based on science.
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REINFORCING BEHAVIOUR THERAPY  An effort has been made to strip Behaviour Therapy of the confusion surrounding it to give it a more solid scientific base. Concepts such as Stimuli and Responses, and Classical and Operant behaviours have been done away with, replaced with...
http://members.tripod.com/rbt/index.html

Online tutorial on positive reinforcement. Also serves as an example of the self-instructional "distance learning" exercises used in many Athabasca University (Canada) courses.
http://server.bmod.athabascau.ca/html/prtut/reinpair.htm

This systems approach to schooling is a registered trademark developed and held by Dr. R. Douglas Greer of Columbia University Teachers College. The site provides information about a behavioral model of schooling that draws on the experimental and applied branches of the science of behavior. Information about the model and the schools offering it are available here.
http://www.cabas.com/

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.
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Behavior Analysts, Inc.  ...
http://www.behavioranalysts.com/

Resource for people interested in behavioral safety, injury prevention, behavior-based quality and other applications of behavioral technology. News, results data, articles, discussion groups and listings of seminars and BST products.
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Behavior-Based Business Solutions from BST, Inc.  Find out how leading companies are building and sustaining injury-free cultures. See more Due to the tragedy in the Gulf Region, The Moving from Injury to Exposure seminar scheduled for New Orleans, October 11-12, has been moved to Houston, Texas,...
http://www.bstsolutions.com/

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.
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Joint Control and Verbal Behavior  It contains presented papers, symposia, published articles, and unpublished position papers concerned with the 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,...
http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/zlowenk/

Glossary of basic terms of Behavior Analysis, plus definitional quotations from classic works.
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Glossary of Terms for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior  Our goals in this glossary are to introduce you to the basic terms of behavioral analysis and to show you how they are related to your everyday life. Authors of the glossary: Brittan Barker, Joy Kreider, Jessie Peissig, Greta Sokoloff,...
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/...wasserman/Glossary/homepage.html

Paper given by Verplanck on his scientific career in various sorts of behavior analysis. Really interesting history.
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Paper given in Palermo  It will hence be difficult for me to avoid making this a reactional biography, a personal history. I necessarily restrict myself to my possibly idiosyncratic analysis of the various behaviorisms and behaviorists I've encountered through that period. I will begin...
http://web.utk.edu/~wverplan/biblio49.html

Tom's home page shows that a career in behavior analysis can get sidetracked by those seductive computers found in the behavior lab. But he's maintained an excellent webpage that links to Internet resources on behavior analysis.
http://www.mactom.com/BehaviorAnalysis/index.html

Free online introductory tutorial on Behaviorism. Focuses on the distinction between methodological and radical behaviourism.
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Behaviorism Tutorial  Behaviorism is generally characterized as the viewpoint holding that the appropriate subject matter for psychology is behavior and the appropriate methods for psychology are those of the natural sciences. It developed primarily in the United States, although it was certainly...
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Behaviorism/

Annotated list of behavior analysis resources.
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/ba.shtml