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Henry Schlinger, Ph.D., BCBA-D

Associate Professor

Director, Applied Behavior Analysis graduate program

 

College of Natural and Social Sciences

Department of Psychology

Office: KH A3043

Office Phone: 323-343-2250

E-mail: hschlin@calstatela.edu

 

Introduction

I am primarily interested in encouraging students to think critically and skeptically about all claims relating to the behavior of humans and nonhumans. In a related manner, my teaching, research, and writing are all geared toward promoting psychology as a natural science of behavior.

 

Teaching Interests

I teach graduate courses in the applied behavior analysis, as well as Introductory Psychology and History and Systems of Psychology. My goal is to train competent behavior analysts and critical, scientific thinkers.

 

Research

My research interests include basic learning processes, schedules of reinforcement, issues in child development, conceptual issues in behavior analysis and psychology, and verbal behavior.

 

Selected Publications

2013. On the origin and function of the term "functional analysis." Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis(with M. Normand). DOI=10.1002/jaba.6&ArticleID=1093926 

2012. Prediction and control: A commentary on Catania (1981). European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 13, 249-253.

2012. What would it be like to be IBM's computer, Watson? The Behavior Analyst, 35,

37-44.

2012. Using a lag schedule to increase variability of verbal responding in an individual with autism. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 28, 125-130 (with C. Susa).

2012. The effect of joint control training on the acquisition and durability of a sequencing task. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 28, 59-71 (with A. Degraff).

2011. Verbally conditioning client behaviors in the therapeutic setting. Clinica y Salud/

Clinic and Health, 22, 245-255. (with G. Alessi).

2011. Skinner as missionary and prophet: A review of Burrhus F. Skinner: Shaper of

behaviour. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 44, 217-225.

2010. Behavioral vs. cognitive views of speech perception. Journal of Speech

Language Pathology-Applied Behavior Analysis, 5, 150-165.

2009. Auditory imagining. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 10, 77-85.

2009. Theory of mind: An overview and behavioral perspective. The Psychological

Record, 59, 435-448.

2009. Some clarifications on the role of inner speech in consciousness. Consciousness

and Cognition, 18, 530-531.

2008. Listening is behaving verbally. The Behavior Analyst, 31, 145-161.

2008. Conditioning the behavior of the listener. International Journal of Psychology and

Psychotherapy, 8, 309-322.

2008. The long goodbye: Why B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior is alive and well on the

50th anniversary of Its publication. The Psychological Record, 58, 329-337.

2008. Consciousness is nothing but a word. Skeptic, 13, 58-63

2008. What 50 years of research tell us about pausing under ratio schedules of

reinforcement. The Behavior Analyst, 31, 39-60 (with A. Derrene & A. Baron).

2005. How the human got its mind: Debunking the last great myth in psychology.

Skeptic, 11, 48-53.

2004. The almost blank slate: Making a case for human nurture. Skeptic, 11, 34-43.

2004. How psychology can keep its promises: A response to Lana. Journal of Mind and

Behavior, 25, 277-286.

2004. Why psychology hasn't kept its promises. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 25, 123-144.

2003. The myth of intelligence. The Psychological Record, 53, 15-32.

2002. Not so fast Mr. Pinker: A behaviorist looks at the Blank Slate. Behavior and Social Issues, 12, 75-79.

1998. Of planets and cognitions: The use of deductive inference in the natural sciences and psychology. The Skeptical Inquirer, 22, 49-51.

1996. How the human got its spots: A critical analysis of the just so stories of evolutionary psychology, Skeptic, 4, 68-76. Reprinted in Sussman, R. W. (1999). The biological basis of human behavior: A critical review (2nd). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, and as Schlinger, H. D. (2002).  Evolutionary Psychology as Pseudoscience. In M. Shermer (Ed.), The Skeptic encyclopedia of pseudoscience, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Cleo, Inc.

1994. The effects of delayed reinforcement and a response-produced auditory stimulus on the acquisition of operant behavior in rats. The Psychological Record, 391-409 (with E. Blakely).

1993. Learned expectancies are not adequate scientific explanations. American Psychologist, 48, 1155-1156.

1992. Theory in behavior analysis: An application to child development. American Psychologist, 47, 1396-1410.

1990. Performance of children under a multiple random-ratio random-interval schedule of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 54, 263-271 (with G. Baxter).

1990. Pausing under variable-ratio schedules: Interaction of reinforcer magnitude, variable-ratio size, and the lowest ratio. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 53, 133-140 (with E. Blakely & T. Kaczor).

1989. Effects of Ro 15-4513 on schedule-controlled responding in pigeons. Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior, 33, 777-780 (with D. Delaney & A. Poling).

1988. Determinants of pausing under variable-ratio schedules: Reinforcer magnitude, ratio size, and schedule configuration. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 50, 65-73 (with E. Blakely).

1988. Evaluation of a procedure to measure the time course of a drug's behavioral action. Journal of Pharmacological Methods, 20, 169-174. (with A. Poling).

 

Books

Schlinger, H. D., & Poling, A. (1998). Introduction to scientific psychology. New York:

Plenum.

Schlinger, H. D.  (1995). A behavior-analytic view of child development. New York:

Plenum.

Poling, A., Schlinger, H., Starin, S., & Blakely, E. (1990). Psychology:  A behavioral

overview. New York: Plenum.

 

Educational Background

Ph.D. Psychlogy/Applied Behavior Analysis

  • Western Michigan University
    Kalamzaoo, MI

M.A. Experimental Psychology

  • Southern Methodist University
    Dallas, TX

B. S. Psychology

  • Southern Methodist University
    Dallas, TX