Applied Quantitative Analysis of Behavior: What It Is, and Why We Care-Introduction to the Special Section.
Applied Quantitative Analysis of Behavior: What It Is, and Why We Care-Introduction to the Special Section.
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行为的应用定量分析：它是什么，以及我们为什么关心 - 特别部分介绍。
DOI：
10.1007/s40614-021-00323-w
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发表时间：
2021
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2
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Huskinson,SallyL
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作者：
Jarmolowicz,DavidP;Greer,BrianD;Killeen,PeterR;Huskinson,SallyL
科学是从先前对其当前形式的近似发展而来的。当达尔文进行著名的加拉帕戈斯群岛之旅时，对物种随时间变化的兴趣并不是一个新概念；对物种形成的关注可以追溯到现代思想史。行为科学也在进化，而且必须进化。这种改变可能很困难，但也能带来巨大的收益。当前特别部分的重点是在这些领域出现的常见突变，以及定义新兴研究领域的关键特征-应用行为定量分析（AQAB）。在这篇“定量方法应用特刊”的导论中，我们将概述这一领域研究的一些共同特征，随着研究领域的不断进步，这种研究肯定会过时。在此过程中，我们还描述了AQAB与理论、行为药理学、应用行为分析和健康行为的关系。最后，我们对本期特刊中出现的文章进行了总结。这些论文的作者都在跳出斯金纳箱，创造新的工具和方法，并根据相关数据进行测试。如果我们能够保持这种方法和思想的演变，行为分析将重新占据其首要位置！
Science evolves from prior approximations of its current form. Interest in changes in species over time was not a new concept when Darwin made his famous voyage to the Galapagos Islands; concern with speciation stretches back throughout the history of modern thought. Behavioral science also does and must evolve. Such change can be difficult, but it can also yield great dividends. The focus of the current special section is on a common mutation that appears to have emerged across these areas and the critical features that define an emerging research area—applied quantitative analysis of behavior (AQAB). In this introduction to the “Special Issue on Applications of Quantitative Methods,” we will outline some of the common characteristics of research in this area, an exercise that will surely be outdated as the research area continues to progress. In doing so, we also describe how AQAB is relevant to theory, behavioral pharmacology, applied behavior analysis, and health behaviors. Finally, we provide a summary for the articles that appear in this special issue. The authors of these papers are all thinking outside the Skinner box, creating new tools and approaches, and testing them against relevant data. If we can keep up this evolution of methods and ideas, behavior analysis will regain its place at the head of the table!