USING COMPUTERS TO TEACH BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS

When it is impractical to provide behavior analysis students with exte nsive laboratory experience using real organisms, computers can provid e effective demonstrations, simulations, and experiments. Furthermore, such computer programs can establish contingency-shaped behavior even in lecture classes, which usually are limited to establishing rule-go verned behavior. We describe the development of computerized shaping s imulations and the development of software that teaches students to di scriminate among reinforcement schedules on the basis of cumulative re cords.