You’re reading your child’s IEP, evaluation report, or behavior plan and suddenly you’re stuck on a phrase that feels ...

Psychologists use the term behavior all the time and more than one current textbook defines psychology as the science of behavior. Yet there is enormous and ongoing confusion regarding what, exactly, ...

Daniella Vellone does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

He generally emphasized the behavior of the animal as a whole and focused experimentally on how it was shaped by “the function of the operant” (i.e., by consequences, especially reinforcement and ...