On the inverse potential and benefit of ABA?

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Hello.

Just wondering, if anyone has used ABA to determine (systematically determine?)

what the best reinforcers are for the individual student and what the interests

of the individual student are of what works, (for them?) thereof? I suppose

where you limit the reinforcers to what the individual student needs you would

get all the results " you " need, thereof? We have to remember (perhaps) that with

dolphins (porpoises and such) and lions and tigers and bears, etc., that we

aren't so much giving them what they " want " as what they " need " (real food,

etc.) in getting " them " to do what we can get them to do.

That presents ethical dimensions to the problem I'm sure, but maybe that's where

we have to go with it if we are to replicate the results we get with training

animals and the seemingly impossible, thereof? Would what students want but not

need really be enough, as we haven't really figured out how that goes with

animals, or perhaps with people, so much as we think, where the studies have not

been so clear on that, perhaps?

Just a thought for Lovaas, , Partington, Carbone (Pavlov and Skinner?

where they would be still around. and our kind, Thereof, I'd like to think.

Mike,

I ABA/J

ABA for Understanding More

Let's be clear on things?

On Inverse ABA, perhaps (Where that could prove to be the cognitive of it, the

cognitive potential of us.