Images of Behavior Analysis: The Shaping Game and the Behavioral Stream.
M. Keenan
University of Ulster, Coleraine
K. Dillenburger
The Queen's University of Belfast
ABSTRACT: This paper points to the lack of scientific images, including moving
images, for promoting behavior analysis. Examples of what could be done to rectify this situation
are contained in two teaching gambits that address practical and philosophical issues in the
analysis of behavior. The first gambit is an elaboration of the shaping game that highlights
issues associated with discriminative control and the role of private events in the analysis of
behavior. The second gambit uses specially designed graphics, both 2-D and 3-D, to show how an
understanding of the behavioral stream underpins every aspect of the analysis of behavior.
Key words: behavioral stream, classroom exercise, epistemology, images, mentalism,
misrepresentation, private events, shaping, stimulus control, teaching.
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