School and Behavioral Psychology

1 Autonomic Learning.- The Fight or Flight Syndrome.- The Autonomic Nervous System.- Extrapolation in Psychology.- School Psychology and Behavior Analysis.- 2 Lucy in the Sky: Learning Without Language.- Natural Selection and Selection by Consequences.- A Few Basic Definitions.- 3 The Evolution of Language and Rule-Governed Behavior.- The Evolution of Words and Rules.- Rule-Governed Behavior and the Premack Principle.- Types of Rule-Following Behavior.- Rule-Governed Behavior and Schedules of Reinforcement.- Masking Subjects.- 4 An Experimental Analysis of Rule-Governed Behavior and Human-Computer Interactions.- Superstitions.- Superstitions during Computer-Interactive Math.- Self-Generated Superstitions During Second-Order Response-Independent Schedules.- Shaping Human Verbal Behavior.- Self-Assessment as a Learned Reinforcer: An Experimental Analysis.- Self-Assessment With and Without Feedback.- 5 Computer-Interactive Functional Assessments.- Constructs.- Functional Assessment.- Public Schools’ Interpretations of Functional Assessments.- Extended Functional Assessment Strategies for the Public School.- Descriptive Analysis: An Alternative Form of Functional Assessment.- Running Functional Assessments in a Descriptive Analysis Format.- FOCAL Point Functional Assessments with Notebook Computers.- Installing FOCALPoint for Windows 95/98/NT and Above 142 Running Partial-Interval Observations on FOCAL Point.- 6 Learning to Behave Yourself.- Functional Assessments and Prescriptive Interventions.- Group-contingencies and Peer Attention.- Under Different Conditions with Different Students.- Rule-Following in the Absence of Supervision.- Shaping Rules for Self-Management and Social Skills.- Epilogue.