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Keynote Presentation: Reinforcement: Contemporary Understandings and Applications of an Old Concept
Wednesday July 17, 2024 8:15am - 9:15am HST
Ballroom A/B (4th Floor)
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Abstract: The most important concept in behavioral science is arguably reinforcement. Typically defined as a change following a behavior that increases the probability of similar behavior in similar situations. This concept left the basic laboratory in the 1960s and became the cornerstone of behavior modification, behavior therapy, and applied behavior analysis, especially when ABA was relied on to understand and treat severe problem behaviors like self-injury and aggression in the 1980s and 1990s. A review of behavior support plans currently being implemented in schools would suggest that no new understandings of reinforcement have been described in the last 30 years. That, however, is not the case. In this presentation, new ways of thinking about reinforcement and designing behavior support plans will be described.

Objectives:
1. The attendee will be able to describe the importance of starting with personalized, synthesized and noncontingent reinforcement when developing therapeutic relationships with students in schools.

2. The attendee will be able to describe the importance of intermittent, unpredictable, and synthesized reinforcement for school-based behavior support plans.

3. The attendee will be able to describe the importance of partial and full reinforcement when teaching skills to students with a history of severe problem behavior.

4. The attendee will be able to describe how preference for contingent over noncontingent reinforcement develops and why it is critical for helping students with trauma.
Speakers
avatar for Gregory Hanley, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA

Gregory Hanley, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA

Owner / Founder / CEO, FTF Behavioral Consulting
Dr. Hanley has been applying the principles of learning to improve socially important behaviors of children and adults with and without disabilities for over 30 years. He worked and trained at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, was degreed at the University of Florida, was tenured at... Read More →
Wednesday July 17, 2024 8:15am - 9:15am HST
Ballroom A/B (4th Floor)
  Behavior, BACB CEU

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