Donald M. Baer

Publication List Details

Period

1975 - 2001

Number

98

Co-Authors

Some reflections on 25 years of the Association for Behavior Analysis: Past, present, and future. (2001)

Morris, Edward K, Baer, Donald M, Donald, M, Favell, Judith E, Glenn, Sigrid S, Sigrid, S, ...

This paper offers some reflections on the discipline and profession of behavior analysis, as well as on the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA), on the occasion of the association's 25th...

On the invulnerability of behavior-analytic theory to biological research. (1996)

Baer, Donald M

relevance of physiology and biological research to behavior analysis, commentary

Exploring the controlling conditions of importance (1990)

Baer, Donald M

criteria for evaluating research in M. Sidman's "Tactics of Scientific Research", commentary

A flight of behavior analysis (1981)

Baer, Donald M

applied vs experimental behavior analysis, comment on J. L. Michael's discussion

Rate-decreasing effects of the atypical neuroleptic risperidone attenuated by conditions of reinforcement in a woman with mental retardation.

Yoo, J Helen, Williams, Dean C, Napolitano, Deborah A, Peyton, Robert T, Baer, Donald M, Schroeder, Stephen R

Effects of two doses of risperidone on the performance of a matching task under tangible reinforcement and nonreinforcement conditions were measured in a woman with mental retardation. In both...

Some still-current dimensions of applied behavior analysis

Baer, Donald M., Wolf, Montrose M., Risley, Todd R.

Twenty years ago, an anthropological note described the current dimensions of applied behavior analysis as it was prescribed and practiced in 1968: It was, or ought to become, applied, behavioral,...

The development of generalized imitation within topographically determined boundaries1

Garcia, Eugene, Baer, Donald M., Firestone, Ira

A multiple baseline technique was employed to examine the experimental development of an imitative repertoire within preselected topographical boundaries. Four severely retarded children, initially...

Receptive training of adjectival inflections in mental retardates1

Baer, Donald M., Guess, Doug

A generalized discrimination of /er/ and /est/ suffixes as labels for stimuli exemplifying comparative or superlative relationships was established in three institutionalized retardates through...

The effects of receptive language training on articulation1

Mann, Ronald A., Baer, Donald M.

The present study attempted to assess one condition of language exposure that might be operative in a normal environment, and experimentally determine its relevance to the acquisition of productive...

Training parents as behavior modifiers: self-recording of contingent attention1

Herbert, Emily W., Baer, Donald M.

Two mothers of deviant young children were instructed to count their episodes of attention to appropriate child behavior in their homes, using wrist counters. Attention and appropriate child behavior...

Independent control of a pre-school child's aggression and peer interaction by contingent teacher attention1

Pinkston, Elsie M., Reese, Nancy M., LeBlanc, Judith M., Baer, Donald M.

This study demonstrated the existent role of contingent teacher attention in maintaining a preschool child's aggression to his peers, as well as an imposed use of contingent teacher attention to...

Social control of form diversity and the emergence of new forms in children's blockbuilding1

Goetz, Elizabeth M., Baer, Donald M.

The blockbuilding behavior of three preschool girls was analyzed in terms of the forms manifest in any completed block construction, and found to contain few different forms in baseline sessions....

The development of instructional control over classroom activities of deviant preschool children1

Baer, Ann M., Rowbury, Trudylee, Baer, Donald M.

Differential reinforcement of compliance with teacher invitations to complete a specific academic task was applied to three extremely negativistic children in a special preschool class. For each...

An analysis of individual differences in generalization between receptive and productive language in retarded children1

Guess, Doug, Baer, Donald M.

Retarded subjects were taught generative pluralization rules concurrently in both the receptive and productive modalities of language. Receptive training established correct pointing to either one or...

Timeout as a punishing stimulus in continuous and intermittent schedules1

Clark, Hewitt B., Rowbury, Trudylee, Baer, Ann M., Baer, Donald M.

The effectiveness of a brief period of isolation (timeout) in the control of disruptive behavior emitted by a retarded child in a preschool classroom setting was examined. Timeout was shown to be an...

Training two severely retarded adolescents to ask questions1

Twardosz, Sandra, Baer, Donald M.

Two retarded boys were taught to discriminate items they knew how to label (training items) from items they did not know (probe items), to respond appropriately by naming any training items, and to...

Effect of contingent and non-contingent social reinforcement on the cooperative play of a preschool child1

Hart, Betty M., Reynolds, Nancy J., Baer, Donald M., Brawley, Eleanor R., Harris, Florence R.

The effect of adult social reinforcement on the cooperative play of a five-year old girl in a preschool setting was assessed under two conditions: (1) presented randomly throughout the school day,...

Collateral social development accompanying reinforcement of outdoor play in a preschool child12

Buell, Joan, Stoddard, Patricia, Harris, Florence R., Baer, Donald M.

A 3-yr-old preschool girl with deficits in both motor and social repertoires was socially reinforced by teachers for use of outdoor play equipment, as a contribution to her motor skills and as a...

Control of tantrum behavior by operant techniques during experimental verbal training

Sailor, Wayne, Guess, Doug, Rutherford, Gorin, Baer, Donald M.

A technique of controlling undesirable or disruptive behavior during an ongoing program of verbal training with a retardate is described. The technique required that the stimulus materials of the...

An experimental analysis of linguistic development: the productive use of the plural morpheme1

Guess, Doug, Sailor, Wayne, Rutherford, Gorin, Baer, Donald M.

Operant conditioning procedures were used to establish a generative use of the plural morpheme in the speech of a severely retarded girl. During training trials, reinforcement was presented...

The application of operant conditioning techniques in a secondary school classroom1

McAllister, Loring W., Stachowiak, James G., Baer, Donald M., Conderman, Linda

The effects of teacher praise and disapproval on two target behaviors, inappropriate talking and turning around, were investigated in a high school English class of 25 students. The contingencies...

Improvement of retardates' mealtime behaviors by timeout procedures using multiple baseline techniques12

Barton, Elizabeth Spindler, Guess, Doug, Garcia, Eugene, Baer, Donald M.

Undesirable mealtime behaviors of a hospital cottage of retardates were reduced by contingent timeout procedures applied by ward personnel successively to one undesirable behavior after another, in a...

The experimental modification of teacher attending behavior1

Cooper, Margaret L., Thomson, Carolyn L., Baer, Donald M.

A method of observing and modifying teacher attention to appropriate child responses in preschool classrooms was developed. Two teachers with no formal training in reinforcement principles were...

“Perhaps it would be better not to know everything.”1

Baer, Donald M.

The advent of statistical methods for evaluating the data of individual-subject designs invites a comparison of the usual research tactics of the group-design paradigm and the...

An implicit technology of generalization1

Stokes, Trevor F., Baer, Donald M.

Traditionally, discrimination has been understood as an active process, and a technology of its procedures has been developed and practiced extensively. Generalization, by contrast, has been...

Multiple-probe technique: a variation on the multiple baseline1

Horner, R. Don, Baer, Donald M.

Multiple-baseline and probe procedures are combined into a “multiple-probe” technique. The technique is designed to provide a thorough analysis of the relationship between an independent variable...

Training generalized improvisation of tools by preschool children1

Parsonson, Barry S., Baer, Donald M.

The development of new, “creative” behaviors was examined in a problem-solving context. One form of problem solving, improvisation, was defined as finding a substitute to replace the specifically...

Finders, keepers?: an analysis and validation of a free-found-ad policy

Goldstein, Richard S., Minkin, Bonnie L., Minkin, Neil, Baer, Donald M.

A survey of Lost and Found classified sections in metropolitan and smaller newspapers revealed disparate rates between Lost ads and Found ads: Lost ads greatly outnumbered Found ads, probably because...

Programming the generalization of a greeting response in four retarded children1

Stokes, Trevor F., Baer, Donald M., Jackson, Robert L.

Reinforcement techniques of prompting and shaping were employed to develop handwaving, a useful social greeting response, in four institutionalized retarded subjects. A multiple-baseline design...

Correspondence between saying and doing: teaching children to share and praise1

Rogers-Warren, Ann, Baer, Donald M.

Five small groups of preschool children were taught to share and praise by the modelling of these behaviors and reinforcement of their reports of sharing and praising. Experiment I demonstrated that...

The application of generalized correct social contingencies: an evaluation of a training program1

Parsonson, Barry S., Baer, Ann M., Baer, Donald M.

Two aides operating a kindergarten-style program for institutionalized mental retardates were trained, using observer feedback, to apply generalized “correct” social contingencies to 10 defined...

The role of offer rates in controlling sharing by young children1

Warren, Steven F., Rogers-Warren, Ann, Baer, Donald M.

The effects of different reinforcement contingencies on the rates of offers to share and their corresponding rates of acceptance by two small groups of preschool children were investigated in two...

Unbiased and unnoticed verbal conditioning: the double agent robot procedure1

Rosenfeld, Howard M., Baer, Donald M.

Subjects who were told they were “experimenters” attempted to reinforce fluent speech in a supposed subject with whom they spoke via intercom. The supposed subject was to say nouns, one at a...

The development of imitation by reinforcing behavioral similarity to a model1

Baer, Donald M., Peterson, Robert F., Sherman, James A.

This research demonstrated some of the conditions under which retarded children can be taught to imitate the actions of adults. Before the experiment, the subjects were without spontaneous imitative...

Laboratory control of thumbsucking by withdrawal and re-presentation of reinforcement

Baer, Donald M.

A 5-year-old boy was shown cartoons, and punished for thumbsucking during alternate cartoons by turning off the cartoons for as long as his thumb remained in his mouth. Thumbsucking weakened during...

Rate-decreasing effects of the atypical neuroleptic risperidone attenuated by conditions of reinforcement in a woman with mental retardation.

Yoo, J Helen, Williams, Dean C, Napolitano, Deborah A, Peyton, Robert T, Baer, Donald M, Schroeder, Stephen R

Effects of two doses of risperidone on the performance of a matching task under tangible reinforcement and nonreinforcement conditions were measured in a woman with mental retardation. In both...

Some still-current dimensions of applied behavior analysis

Baer, Donald M., Wolf, Montrose M., Risley, Todd R.

Twenty years ago, an anthropological note described the current dimensions of applied behavior analysis as it was prescribed and practiced in 1968: It was, or ought to become, applied, behavioral,...

The development of generalized imitation within topographically determined boundaries1

Garcia, Eugene, Baer, Donald M., Firestone, Ira

A multiple baseline technique was employed to examine the experimental development of an imitative repertoire within preselected topographical boundaries. Four severely retarded children, initially...

Receptive training of adjectival inflections in mental retardates1

Baer, Donald M., Guess, Doug

A generalized discrimination of /er/ and /est/ suffixes as labels for stimuli exemplifying comparative or superlative relationships was established in three institutionalized retardates through...

The effects of receptive language training on articulation1

Mann, Ronald A., Baer, Donald M.

The present study attempted to assess one condition of language exposure that might be operative in a normal environment, and experimentally determine its relevance to the acquisition of productive...

Training parents as behavior modifiers: self-recording of contingent attention1

Herbert, Emily W., Baer, Donald M.

Two mothers of deviant young children were instructed to count their episodes of attention to appropriate child behavior in their homes, using wrist counters. Attention and appropriate child behavior...

Independent control of a pre-school child's aggression and peer interaction by contingent teacher attention1

Pinkston, Elsie M., Reese, Nancy M., LeBlanc, Judith M., Baer, Donald M.

This study demonstrated the existent role of contingent teacher attention in maintaining a preschool child's aggression to his peers, as well as an imposed use of contingent teacher attention to...

Social control of form diversity and the emergence of new forms in children's blockbuilding1

Goetz, Elizabeth M., Baer, Donald M.

The blockbuilding behavior of three preschool girls was analyzed in terms of the forms manifest in any completed block construction, and found to contain few different forms in baseline sessions....

The development of instructional control over classroom activities of deviant preschool children1

Baer, Ann M., Rowbury, Trudylee, Baer, Donald M.

Differential reinforcement of compliance with teacher invitations to complete a specific academic task was applied to three extremely negativistic children in a special preschool class. For each...

An analysis of individual differences in generalization between receptive and productive language in retarded children1

Guess, Doug, Baer, Donald M.

Retarded subjects were taught generative pluralization rules concurrently in both the receptive and productive modalities of language. Receptive training established correct pointing to either one or...

Timeout as a punishing stimulus in continuous and intermittent schedules1

Clark, Hewitt B., Rowbury, Trudylee, Baer, Ann M., Baer, Donald M.

The effectiveness of a brief period of isolation (timeout) in the control of disruptive behavior emitted by a retarded child in a preschool classroom setting was examined. Timeout was shown to be an...

Training two severely retarded adolescents to ask questions1

Twardosz, Sandra, Baer, Donald M.

Two retarded boys were taught to discriminate items they knew how to label (training items) from items they did not know (probe items), to respond appropriately by naming any training items, and to...

Effect of contingent and non-contingent social reinforcement on the cooperative play of a preschool child1

Hart, Betty M., Reynolds, Nancy J., Baer, Donald M., Brawley, Eleanor R., Harris, Florence R.

The effect of adult social reinforcement on the cooperative play of a five-year old girl in a preschool setting was assessed under two conditions: (1) presented randomly throughout the school day,...

Collateral social development accompanying reinforcement of outdoor play in a preschool child12

Buell, Joan, Stoddard, Patricia, Harris, Florence R., Baer, Donald M.

A 3-yr-old preschool girl with deficits in both motor and social repertoires was socially reinforced by teachers for use of outdoor play equipment, as a contribution to her motor skills and as a...

Control of tantrum behavior by operant techniques during experimental verbal training

Sailor, Wayne, Guess, Doug, Rutherford, Gorin, Baer, Donald M.

A technique of controlling undesirable or disruptive behavior during an ongoing program of verbal training with a retardate is described. The technique required that the stimulus materials of the...

An experimental analysis of linguistic development: the productive use of the plural morpheme1

Guess, Doug, Sailor, Wayne, Rutherford, Gorin, Baer, Donald M.

Operant conditioning procedures were used to establish a generative use of the plural morpheme in the speech of a severely retarded girl. During training trials, reinforcement was presented...

The application of operant conditioning techniques in a secondary school classroom1

McAllister, Loring W., Stachowiak, James G., Baer, Donald M., Conderman, Linda

The effects of teacher praise and disapproval on two target behaviors, inappropriate talking and turning around, were investigated in a high school English class of 25 students. The contingencies...

Improvement of retardates' mealtime behaviors by timeout procedures using multiple baseline techniques12

Barton, Elizabeth Spindler, Guess, Doug, Garcia, Eugene, Baer, Donald M.

Undesirable mealtime behaviors of a hospital cottage of retardates were reduced by contingent timeout procedures applied by ward personnel successively to one undesirable behavior after another, in a...

The experimental modification of teacher attending behavior1

Cooper, Margaret L., Thomson, Carolyn L., Baer, Donald M.

A method of observing and modifying teacher attention to appropriate child responses in preschool classrooms was developed. Two teachers with no formal training in reinforcement principles were...

“Perhaps it would be better not to know everything.”1

Baer, Donald M.

The advent of statistical methods for evaluating the data of individual-subject designs invites a comparison of the usual research tactics of the group-design paradigm and the...

An implicit technology of generalization1

Stokes, Trevor F., Baer, Donald M.

Traditionally, discrimination has been understood as an active process, and a technology of its procedures has been developed and practiced extensively. Generalization, by contrast, has been...

Multiple-probe technique: a variation on the multiple baseline1

Horner, R. Don, Baer, Donald M.

Multiple-baseline and probe procedures are combined into a “multiple-probe” technique. The technique is designed to provide a thorough analysis of the relationship between an independent variable...

Training generalized improvisation of tools by preschool children1

Parsonson, Barry S., Baer, Donald M.

The development of new, “creative” behaviors was examined in a problem-solving context. One form of problem solving, improvisation, was defined as finding a substitute to replace the specifically...

Finders, keepers?: an analysis and validation of a free-found-ad policy

Goldstein, Richard S., Minkin, Bonnie L., Minkin, Neil, Baer, Donald M.

A survey of Lost and Found classified sections in metropolitan and smaller newspapers revealed disparate rates between Lost ads and Found ads: Lost ads greatly outnumbered Found ads, probably because...

Programming the generalization of a greeting response in four retarded children1

Stokes, Trevor F., Baer, Donald M., Jackson, Robert L.

Reinforcement techniques of prompting and shaping were employed to develop handwaving, a useful social greeting response, in four institutionalized retarded subjects. A multiple-baseline design...

Correspondence between saying and doing: teaching children to share and praise1

Rogers-Warren, Ann, Baer, Donald M.

Five small groups of preschool children were taught to share and praise by the modelling of these behaviors and reinforcement of their reports of sharing and praising. Experiment I demonstrated that...

The application of generalized correct social contingencies: an evaluation of a training program1

Parsonson, Barry S., Baer, Ann M., Baer, Donald M.

Two aides operating a kindergarten-style program for institutionalized mental retardates were trained, using observer feedback, to apply generalized “correct” social contingencies to 10 defined...

The role of offer rates in controlling sharing by young children1

Warren, Steven F., Rogers-Warren, Ann, Baer, Donald M.

The effects of different reinforcement contingencies on the rates of offers to share and their corresponding rates of acceptance by two small groups of preschool children were investigated in two...

Unbiased and unnoticed verbal conditioning: the double agent robot procedure1

Rosenfeld, Howard M., Baer, Donald M.

Subjects who were told they were “experimenters” attempted to reinforce fluent speech in a supposed subject with whom they spoke via intercom. The supposed subject was to say nouns, one at a...

The development of imitation by reinforcing behavioral similarity to a model1

Baer, Donald M., Peterson, Robert F., Sherman, James A.

This research demonstrated some of the conditions under which retarded children can be taught to imitate the actions of adults. Before the experiment, the subjects were without spontaneous imitative...

Laboratory control of thumbsucking by withdrawal and re-presentation of reinforcement

Baer, Donald M.

A 5-year-old boy was shown cartoons, and punished for thumbsucking during alternate cartoons by turning off the cartoons for as long as his thumb remained in his mouth. Thumbsucking weakened during...

Some reflections on 25 years of the association for behavior analysis: Past, present, and future

Morris, Edward K., Baer, Donald M., Favell, Judith E., Glenn, Sigrid S., Hineline, Philip N., Malott, Maria E., ...

This paper offers some reflections on the discipline and profession of behavior analysis, as well as on the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA), on the occasion of the association's 25th...