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American marine conchology : or, Descriptions of the shells of the Atlantic coast of the United States from Maine to Florida. By George W. Tryon, Jr.
No full textYes -- Neural Network Learning Theory Can Resolve the Behavioral Cognitive Controversy
No full textThe positive comments and constructive ton with which Forsyth, Hawkins, and Hutchinson (1996) begin their response to Tryon\u27s (1993b, 1995a, 1995b) thesis that Neural Network Learning Theory (NNLT) can resolve the behavioral cognitive controversy identifies consistencies between Radical Behaviorism (RB) and connectionistic Neural Network Learning Theory (NNLT). The questions they raise in subsequent sections are important to achieving rapprochement of the cognitive behavioral schism and are therefore addressed here. The primary task of unification is to combine the positive contributions of both the behavioral and cognitive perspectives without rejecting or compromising important values of either orientation. For reasons presented below, I conclude the NNLT, which is completely compatible with cognitive psychology, is also theoretically compatible with behavior analysis and will broaden the appeal of behavioral analysis within the scientific community
Psychotherapy Integration via Theoretical Unification
No full textMeaningful psychotherapy integration requires theoretical unification because psychotherapists can only be expected to treat patients with the same diagnoses similarly if they understand these disorders similarly and if they agree on the mechanisms by which effective treatments work. Tryon (in press) has proposed a transtheoretic transdiagnostic psychotherapy based on an Applied Psychological Science (APS) clinical orientation, founded on a BioPsychology Network explanatory system that provides sufficient theoretical unification to support meaningful psychotherapy integration. That proposal focused mainly on making a neuroscience argument. This article makes a different argument for theoretical unification and consequently psychotherapy integration. The strength of theories of psychotherapy, like all theory, is to focus on certain topics, goals, and methods. But this strength is also a weakness because it can blind one to alternative perspectives and thereby promote unnecessary competition among therapies. This article provides a broader perspective based on learning and memory that is consistent with the behavioral, cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, pharmacologic, and Existential/Humanistic/Experiential clinical orientations. It thereby provides a basis for meaningful psychotherapy integration
Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species / by George W. Tryon, Jr.
No full textEvaluating statistical difference, equivalence, and indeterminacy using inferential confidence intervals: An integrated alternative method of conducting null hypothesis statistical tests
No full textNull hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) has been debated extensively but always successfully defended. The technical merits of NHST are not disputed in this article. The widespread misuse of NHST has created a human factors problem that this article intends to ameliorate. This article describes an integrated, alternative inferential confidence interval approach to testing for statistical difference, equiva-lence, and indeterminacy that is algebraically equivalent to standard NHST proce-dures and therefore exacts the same evidential standard. The combined numeric and graphic tests of statistical difference, equivalence, and indeterminacy are designed to avoid common interpretive problems associated with NHST procedures. Mul-tiple comparisons, power, sample size, test reliability, effect size, and cause-effect ratio are discussed. A section on the proper interpretation of confidence intervals is followed by a decision rule summary and caveats. The long-standing controversy surrounding null hy-pothesis statistical testing (NHST) has typically been argued on its technical merits, and they are not dis
The Reliability and Validity of Two Ambulatory Monitoring Actigraphs
No full textEvidence for the reliability and validity of two models of Ambulatory Monitoring, Inc. actigraphs was obtained by testing four instruments of each kind 10 times each on a precision pendulum. Correlation and coefficient of variation methods were used to analyze the data. Reliability coefficients of .98 were obtained for both models. Coefficient of variation methods yielded reliability coefficients of 92% for the MotionLogger model and 97% for the BuzzBee model. Validity coefficients of .99 were obtained for both models. However, MotionLogger means were found to differ by up to 36% from one instrument to another, whereas BuzzBee means differed by 10% at most. Issues of standardization and measurement units were discussed
American marine conchology, or, Descriptions of the shells of the Atlantic coast of the United States from Maine to Florida / by George W. Tryon, Jr.
No full textValidating internet research: a test of the psychometric equivalence of internet and in-person samples
Get PDFBoth experimental and survey research can now be conducted on the World-Wide Web (WWW). The most recent and thorough discussion of behavioral research on the Internet has come in the form of two books by Birn-baum (2000a, 2000b) and one by Batinic, Reips, and Bosnjak (2002). Reips (2001) has reviewed the history of Web experiments and described 5 years of experience with an Internet research resource for conducting true experiments on the WWW a
Neural Network Learning Theory Integrates Behavior Therapy and Behavior Genetics
No full textThis article makes several preliminary points prior to presenting two examples of how Neural Network Learning Theory (NNLT) integrates behavior therapy and behavior genetics. I will argue that NNLT is both a cognitive and behavioral theory; that neither cognitive nor behavior theory informs us about biological, including genetic, factors; and that NNLT provides and understanding of how biological, including genetic, factors influence psychology and behavior. I use the term integration to mean that NNLT provides a single vocabulary and set of explanatory concepts consistent with the broad spectrum of behavioral and cognitive therapies and informs us as to how genetics can regulate both psychological and behavioral processes. My comments are intentionally general. I do not suggest that most or all of the desired information is at hand. Nevertheless, enough is known to conclude that NNLT is an extraordinarily promising theory that deserves close attention by all psychologists, especially behavior therapists
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