What Gray Wolves Taught me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Using Animal Models to Gain Insight into Behavior becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside transition planning, adult service routines, vocational programming, and long-term support decisions. In What Gray Wolves Taught me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Using Animal Models to Gain Insight into Behavior, for this course, the practical stakes show up in skills that remain meaningful when school supports disappear and adult expectations change, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Science has long used animal models to explore a wide range of natural phenomena, and psychology is no expectation. B. F. Skinner's Behavior of Organisms presented a natural-science approach to understanding the behavior of all living things, including humans. Throughout his investigations in this seminal work, he never used human subjects in his investigations, yet the principles he discovered have generalized across species. The current talk will highlight some current research using animal models to gain insight into the generality of the principles of behavior across species. Grays wolves understand shapes? Do Loggerhead Sea Turtles have individual color preferences? Can African Pouched Rats detect landmines? And most importantly, do the concepts and principles used to answer these questions apply to human behavior?!
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
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Dr. Andrew Bulla earned his Bachelor’s degree from Saint Joseph’s University in psychology with a minor in autism studies. Upon graduating, he completed his master’s and doctoral degrees in behavior analysis from Western Michigan University, and subsequently became a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst in 2014. He is currently an associate professor of psychology and program chair for behavior analysis programs at Georgia Southern University – Armstrong Campus. Drew is also a consultant for Morningside Teachers’ Academy, where he helps coordinate and run the Summer Institute to teach individuals all over the world about the Morningside Model of Generative Instruction. Drew has worked at a variety of organizations over the course of his career including autism centers, community mental health agencies, animal facilities and several school districts. During his time in these positions, Dr. Bulla applied behavior analysis to a variety of learners and situations. He has worked in autism early intervention, ancillary programs including social and recreational skills, the assessment and treatment of challenging behaviors, academic interventions for students with and without disabilities, instructional design, and animal training including loggerhead sea turtles and grey wolves. Drew has published and conducted research in the areas self-management, instructional design, precision teaching, physical activity, and animal training and welfare. He has published his research in a variety of journals including the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, The Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, Behavior Analysis in Practice, Journal of Behavioral Education, The European Journal of Behavior Analysis, Psychology in the Schools, and Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice. Dr. Bulla has presented over 100 peer-reviewed presentations, posters, and workshops at regional, national, and international conferences. He is currently a board member for the Standard Celeration Society and has served as the Lead Guest Editor for a special issue of Behavior Analysis in Practice on precision teaching, and is currently on the editorial boards for Behavior Analysis and Practice and Behavior and Social Issues. In his spare time, Drew can be spotted on the beach and in the ocean either swimming or paddling, giving guided kayak/paddle board tours, reading, (trying his hardest at) surfing, traveling, or spending time with his pups, Kobe and Aspen.
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