Alan Baron, Professor Emeritus
Office: Garland Hall, Room 238D
Phone: 414-229-4608
e-mail: ab@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~ab/
Lab Page: www.uwm.edu/~ab/ADL/adl.html
Degree:
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1957
Research Interests:
Conditioning and Learning, Behavior Analysis, Behavioral Gerontology.
Teaching Interests
Although most of my research goes on in the laboratory (I study rats as well as people) and is more concerned with basic issues than with direct application, the goal is to understand complex forms of human behavior as it occurs within natural environments. Titles of recent publications illustrate some of the questions I have been addressing with my students. Graduate courses: Conditioning and Learning, Seminar in Learning, Seminar in Operant Behavior, Psychology of Aging.
Recent Publications:
Baron, A., & Perone, M. (2001). Explaining avoidance: Two factors are still better than one. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 75, 357-361.
Derenne, A., & Baron, A. (2000). Timeout punishment of long pauses on fixed-ratio schedules of reinforcement. The Psychological Record, 51, 39-51.
Baron, A., & Derenne, A. (2000). Quantitative summaries of single subject studies: What do group comparisons tell us about individual performances? The Behavior Analyst, 23, 101-106.
Baron, A., & Derenne, A. (2000). Progressive ratio schedules: Effects of later schedule requirements on earlier performances. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 73, 291-304.
Baron, A., & Herpolsheimer, L. R. (1999). Averaging effects in the study of fixed-ratio response patterns. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 73, 145-153.
Baron, A., & Perone, M. (1998). Experimental design and analysis in the laboratory study of human operant behavior. In K. A. Lattal & M. Perone (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in operant behavior. New York: Plenum Press.
Baron, A., & Leinenweber, A. (1995). Effects of a variable-ratio conditioning history on sensitivity to fixed-interval contingencies in rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 63, 97-110.
Baron, A., & Cerella, J. (1993). Laboratory tests of the disuse hypothesis of cognitive decline. In J. Cerella et al. (Eds.), Adult information processing: Limits on loss. New York: Academic Press.
Baron, A., Perone, M., & Galizio, M. (1991). Analyzing the reinforcement process at the human level: Can application and behavioristic interpretation replace laboratory research? The Behavior Analyst, 14, 95-105.
Baron, A. (1991). Avoidance and punishment. In I.H. Iversen & K. A. Lattal (Eds.), Techniques in the behavioral and neural sciences: Experimental analysis of behavior. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.
