Laurilyn D. JonesCity College of New York | CCNY · Department of Psychology
Laurilyn D. Jones
PhD
Currently pursuing a M.A. in Mental Health Counseling
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Introduction
Laurilyn D. Jones served for 23 years as the Managing Director of the Mechner Foundation in New York City. She was awarded her PhD from the Department of Behavioural Sciences at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) in 2019. Laurilyn conducted extensive experimental psychology research in Behavioural Science. She also has substantial experience in educational psychology through the Foundation's experimental school, the Queens Paideia School, and in designing educational software.
Additional affiliations
February 1998 - October 2021
The Mechner Foundation
Position
- Managing Director
Education
June 2013 - September 2019
September 1987 - May 1991
Publications
Publications (7)
All operant behaviors have multiple characteristics in addition to those criterial for reinforcement, and variation occurs across all. All such characteristics can also reflect topographic bias due to historic and physiological factors. The revealed operant is constructed so that topographic aspects and variation are measurable. In two experiments...
Over the last several years the educational mainstream has become increasingly focused on the importance of “Social-Emotional” Learning and the development of ways to evaluate and promote the so-called “soft” skills. Behavior analysts, of course, have long recognized that non-academic competencies can (and should be) both measured and taught, and u...
In any type of behavioral research involving a choice element, the researcher must consider the possible methodological challenge of operant bias: a consistent preference for one operant over another. In the first experiment described in this article, originally designed to study the effect of number of prior repetitions of an operant on the freque...
The present research is based on the conceptualization of resurgence as reappearance of behavior that occurred earlier in the individual’s history but not recently, without restoration of the conditions under which the earlier behavior occurred. In a series of five experiments, human participants typed nonword sequences of letters on a computer key...
In experiments involving multiple operant behaviors, it is often assumed that the operants used are equivalent and neutral for the participants prior to the experiment. Otherwise the results can be affected by systematic operant bias that is not due to the intended independent variable. During a series of three studies designed to develop a new typ...
In a series of five experiments, a number of similar operant classes, consisting of keystroke sequences on a computer keyboard, were learned and practiced in succession by human subjects. Each experiment consisted of learning sessions spread over several days, separated by either elapsed time or interpolated sessions in which unrelated but similar...
