Behavior analysis as a discipline has achieved remarkable success through its foundational focus on the three-term contingency — the antecedent-behavior-consequence framework that explains how individual behavior is selected and maintained. This framework has produced effective interventions across populations and settings, establishing behavior analysis as a rigorous science with powerful applied implications.
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Join Free →The three-term contingency often serves as the basis by which students are introduced to behavior science; the focus is on the individual, their behavior, and the immediate antecedents and consequences under which it may occur and be selected. However, in addition to the local temporal contingencies, behavior is also determined in part by the organism's individual history. This history comprises the social and cultural contingencies that are determined, to some extent, by others who both participate in and arrange the antecedent and consequence variables for the behaviors(s) of interest. Much of human behavior is social behavior that occurs within a social environment. Developing an understanding of human behavior requires consideration of not only the immediate temporally related variables of influence on an individual's behavior but also the social, family, and cultural contingencies and metacontingencies that form their social environments. Consequently, it is possible that the way in which students are typically introduced to behavior analysis may devalue the significance of individual, social, and cultural humility in applied behavior analysis. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss how introducing students to the socio-ecological model and the concepts, principles, models, and tools developed thus far in culturo-behavior science might improve students' understanding of social behavior and culture, and in turn enhance individual, social, and cultural humility in applied behavior analysis.
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Dr. Traci Cihon received her master’s degree from the University of Nevada-Reno, her PhD from The Ohio State University, and is actively pursuing a master’s in public health. She served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavior Analysis at The University of North Texas for 13 years where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses behavioral systems analysis and the graduate-level ethics course. Her current scholarship focuses on culturo-behavior systems science, building systems to support behavior scientific work on social and cultural issues, developing international and interdisciplinary collaborations, and behavioral education. At UNT, Dr. Cihon coordinated the verified course sequence in Culturo-Behavior Science and led the Culturo-Behavior Science Lab, conducting research that contributes to our understanding of how cultural phenomena develop from a systems and selectionist perspective. Dr. Cihon serves on editorial boards for several peer-reviewed journals including The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, Perspectives on Behavior Science, and the American Annals of the Deaf, and is the current editor-in-chief for Behavior and Social Issues. She recently served as the Guest Editor for a special section in Behavior and Social Issues featuring papers from the 6th Think Tank on Cultural Analysis, co-edited a special section of Perspectives on Behavior Science focused on cultural and behavioral systems science and the first book in the ABAI book series, Behavior Science Perspectives on Culture and Community, with Dr. Mattaini. In addition to serving as a member of the Board of Planners for both the ABAI Behaviorists for Social Responsibility Special Interest Group and for the BFSR SIG of Texas ABA, she was awarded the APA Division 25 Fred S. Keller Behavioral Education Award in 2021. Currently Dr. Cihon is also co-editing, alongside Drs. Rehfeldt and Rasmussen, a second book in the ABAI book series that showcases the perspectives of a number of prominent female behavior scientists who have held successful careers in academia.
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