Behavioral Economic Analysis of Alcohol Purchasing: Using the Alcohol Purchasing Task as an Exploratory/Experimental Heuristic matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Behavioral Economic Analysis of Alcohol Purchasing: Using the Alcohol Purchasing Task as an Exploratory/Experimental Heuristic, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →The Alcohol Purchasing Task (APT) is a validated measure of demand for alcoholic beverages. It asks participants to imagine purchasing alcoholic beverages at various prices. Numerous variables affect purchasing. For example, hypothetical academic constraints (e.g. an exam the next day at 8:30 am) have been shown to decrease certain economic demand measures such as break point (the price that suppresses alcohol purchases to zero) and Pmax (the price associated with maximum alcohol expenditure). Our lab has used the APT for a number of years to test hypotheses about the supposed effects of certain variables on alcohol purchasing. Somewhat surprisingly, age and impulsivity have little influence on demand for alcohol, while the likelihood to engage in binge-drinking has a large effect. Findings help us understand the relationship between alcohol use and other behavior using the principles of behavioral economics. In addition, the APT has served as a excellent model for teaching the principals of behavior analysis and experimentation to an undergraduate sample.
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