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SOURCES OF CONTROL Graduate Training
Experimental Research
Existing Resources
Observing Behavior
Experimental Contingencies
Extra-Experimental Contingencies
Existing Resources • When planning a study, experimental questions are typically restricted by the
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Existing Resources ✅• When planning a study, experimental questions are typically restricted by the
available resources of a researcher
• Just as with observation vs. literature review, balance is needed o ensure that the question is both
adding to the literature and the broader field's knowledge of a behavioral phenomenon as well as the
needs of the specific environment
Experimental Research ✅• Within your graduate school journey, emphasis is placed on making the
research literature of the field relevant to your professional activities
• However, you cannot be an expert on everything
• It is good to start looking at existent literature directly relating to your primary interest
• However it is also important to examine broader areas
• Even in non-behavioral lit, you may find some interesting ideas
Graduate Training ✅• Training in graduate school is where we begin the journey to become behavior
analysts as practitioners, researchers, or something in between
• Interactions with instructors shape what type of behavior analyst one will become
• The culturally learned repertoire for understanding and describing behavior is gradually replaced with
a specialized scientific verbal repertoire
• Professional reinforcers are contacted which will influence one's behavior throughout their career
, Observing Behavior ✅• While leaning on previous research is good, it can also lead to paths of research
that focus on minute details instead of larger, more socially significant questions
• Experience can lad to questions that have yet to be answered within the literature, leading to good
extensions of current knowledge
Experimental Contingencies ✅• Oftentimes, the findings of current research lead to new research ideas
• In this way, lines of ongoing research are established
• Sometimes it is that the findings lead to new questions regarding the way in which an intervention
works or which components are necessary for the effect
• Sometimes it is that your findings vary between subjects, and the next step is to resolve those
differences
• Studies such as these (which yield research questions) provide outcomes which may be reinforcing for
the researcher
• These types of studies which serve a specific role in relation to past and future research projects
within an area are also likely to benefit the field
Extra-Experimental Contingencies ✅• These are contingencies which are not directly related to the
details of the research or its role in the literature
• These include other outcomes such as professional reputation, grants, patents, tenure or promotion,
etc.
• These can be dangerous as they may lead to questions which serve personal interests rather than the
needs of the field
RESEARCH STYLES ✅Advocacy research
Thematic Research
Independent Research
Demonstration Research
Explanatory Research
Pilot and In-House Research
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