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Department of Psychology 700 Pelham Road, Jacksonville, AL, 36265-1602. (256) 782-5402 | |
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Steven C. Stout, Ph.D., BCBA-D Associate Professor Phone: (256) 782-8125 Office: Ayers 205 Office Hours: by appointment Education:B.A., Northeast Louisiana University, Psychology, 1992. M.S., Northeast Louisiana University, General-Experimental Psychology, 1995. Ph.D., Texas Christian University, Experimental Psychology, 2001. Postdoctoral Fellow, Binghamton University, 2000-2003. Board Certified Behavior Analyst, 2005.
Academic Interests:
I am fascinated by learning in general. I have formally investigated how animals and people behave when they have to deal with multiple cues for important events, how animals react to unexpected reward loss, how people react to predictive cues when the cues change their meaning, and techniques that lead to rapid learning of reading and mathematics facts.
I prevent myself from climbing too far up the ivory tower through applied behavior analysis work in regular and special education and adults with mental retardation. Applied behavior analysis is the application of learning principles to help make the world a little happier. At present, I am working closely with Anniston City Schools through the Anniston Housing Authority on a grant sponsored by the Community Foundation of Calhoun County . The purpose of the grant is to help boost behavior and academic performance of kids in the Anniston system.
I recently founded Sirius Education, Inc. a nonprofit organization dedicated to using applied behavior analysis for the improvement of education in Northeast Alabama.
Representative Publications:
Stout, S. C., Muzio, R. N., Boughner, R. L., & Papini, M. R. (2002). Aftereffects of the surprising presentation and omission of appetitive reinforcers on key-pecking in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavioral Processes, 2, 242-256.
Stout, S. C., Chang, R., & Miller, R. R. (2003). Trial spacing is a determinant of cue interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavioral Processes, 29, 23-38
Stout, S. C., Amundson, J., & Miller, R. R. (2005). Trial order and retention interval in human predictive judgment. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1368-1376.
Stout, S. C., & Miller, R. R. (2007). Sometimes competing retrieval (SOCR): A formalization of the comparator hypothesis. Psychological Review, 114, 759-783.
Link to SOCR Model Simulations
2009, Jacksonville State University
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