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  • 26 Nov, 09:50
    Kevin Murdock
    New! Continuing Education credits for Behavior Analysts more...
This site is dedicated to helping people learn about the science of behavior and to acquire skills that solve real-life behavioral problems. Serious students of behavior (sometimes called "psychology") should click here to bookmark this site now and send an icon to the desktop as a reminder to return.

This site utilizes highly interactive tutorials. In these tutorials you do NOT passively read text, scroll and click. Instead, the powerful technology of Programmed Instruction (PI) engages you in learning as if you were being privately tutored. Lessons are presented in carefully crafted screen-by-screen sequences. Each screen presents a little information. You actively respond. And, you get immediate feedback. You work alone at your own pace. PI is more work than passive reading, but much scientific research has proven that you will remember much more of each lesson.

Introductory, Medium, and Advanced level tutorials and courses are listed in the menu below. Generally, you should complete the less challenging lessons before progressing to more difficult materials. We recommend working down the menu since some tutorials build on knowledge acquired from previous tutorials. Click on any title (in the center left) to display a detailed description and how to subscribe, if necessary. The tutorials have been affordably priced to encourage users to return and learn more about the science of behavior. Income from subscribers pays for site administration, course design and oversight. To support enhancement and expansion of this site, please make a donation by clicking the PayPal button to the left.

Instructors wishing to use this site for course assignments should contact us to learn how to receive records of student/participant successful completion.

You may notice some non-American spelling here and there in this site.  The software delivery system was created by those who use British spelling and punctuation conventions and we have not elected to change all occurrences.

Available Courses

  • If you are new to this site, please start here. Doing the first of these will give you an idea of nature of the instruction at this website. These five sets explain what behavior analysis is and what a "contingency of reinforcement" is. Do them in sequence. They are for those who are new to the science of behavior or would like a review of this site's orientation. We suggest that immediately following these five sets you do the next selection below this one. Do selections down this menu in sequence because they build upon each other using the vocabulary introduced in each preceding set.
  • Very few people talk about curtailing the world trends of overpopulation, overconsumption, pollution, and the threat of nuclear warfare. Even fewer people do much about it. These tutorials explain why. They also point to the important roles of scholars, writers, scientists, and teachers in saving the world by correcting current trends. The tutorials address related barriers including governments, religions, the accumulation of wealth, and limited understanding of the science of behavior. These tutorials draw significantly from a seminal paper written by B. F. Skinner shortly before his death.
  • Sample these 6 tutorials for free. Each tutorial takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete. If you like what you experience here, subscribe to the complete set immediately below.
  • The first 6 tutorials are available above for free. This series of tutorials and review lessons, called the ABASETS, delivers an expanding presentation about the science of behavior, its philosophy, assumptions, and methods for discovery of the functional relations between behavior and the variables that control it. Each tutorial requires approximately 15-30 minutes to complete. Click here for an outline of the concepts and learning objectives covered in these tutorials.
  • Sample these 3 tutorials for free. Each tutorial takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. If you like what you experience here, subscribe to the complete set immediately below.
  • The first 3 tutorials can be sampled above for free. These tutorials teach the implications of a science of behavior. Freedom of action is defined from a scientific point of view. The science of behavior leads to more effective methods of behavior management, but in doing so it raises ethical issues. The critical issue of where behavior begins (i.e., what causes behavior) is carefully explained. At the end of these tutorials, the user will be able to broadly explain why people behave as they do, explain the significance of current cultural traditions, and explain how a science of behavior can help to solve the behavioral problems of daily living and world trends. Each of the 63 tutorials takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. This tutorial borrows significantly from B. F. Skinner's book BEYOND FREEDOM AND DIGNITY. Click here for an outline of the concepts and learner objectives addressed in these tutorials.
  • This pretest of your ethical recognition skills is free. A series of scenarios are presented in which a behavior analyst is faced with an ethical dilemma. These scenarios were designed to align with the guidelines for ethical behavior available at the www.bacb.com website. Your score will inform you as to how much you may gain from the tutorials you can purchase below. At the end of the tutorials below, a similar posttest appears to assess how much you have learned from the purchased tutorials.
  • Target audience: These tutorials and the posttest are well-suited for professionals holding, or students seeking, certification in behavior analysis. Other students and professionals may benefit from exposure to these important lessons. 3 continuing education (type 2) credits for currently certified behavior analysts (BCBA or BCaBA) may be requested after successful completion. If you are a student in approved university program, ask your instructor about earning course credit by completing these tutorials and the posttest. Other professionals can request a record of successful completion that may be applied to licensure or professional development requirements in some states, agencies, school districts, etc. Goals of this course: Behavior analysts must be experts in solving ethical dilemmas because they are often faced with complex and potentially dangerous situations, such as aggressive or harmful client behaviors; difficulties in coordinating effective interventions by parents, caretakers, or teachers; or requests to apply punitive interventions. Course topics: This program examines the study of difficult decisions involving conflicting individual and cultural (social) contingencies of reinforcement, known as ethics.  Instructional methods: Eight brief tutorials cover the basic principles of ethical behavior.  Participants also study the ethical guidelines available at the www.bacb.com website and then complete the posttest containing 150 practical scenarios describing ethical dilemmas. Detailed feedback is provided. The authors are solely responsible for their interpretation of the BACB guidelines. These interpretations are in no way sanctioned, nor approved by the BACB.

  • These tutorials discuss various issues important in our daily lives. They demonstrate how a behavior analytic interpretation can clarify how we might live happier lives. Some of the diverse range of topics addressed by these tutorials include Procreation, Vegetarianism, Skinner's Aircrib, Teaching with Computers, the Importance of Solitude, Things Versus People, the Devil, and Tolerance.

  • We believe this self-test is a good way to see where you stand concerning your knowledge of basic behavioral principles--possibly as you are preparing to achieve certification in the field of behavior analysis. Each of the 12 self tests covers a unit of content taught by the ABOUT BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS tutorials (see above in this roster of tutorials) --and should be taken relatively quickly--and each takes about 10-15 minutes.   They are an excellent review in preparation for taking examinations for certification or courses.