Research Laboratory: Patrick M. Ghezzi, Ph.D., BCBA
Dr. Ghezzi's past and present research and scholarship is diverse, ranging from laboratory, quasi-laboratory and naturalistic studies in operant and respondent conditioning with humans and nonhumans to improving services and learning outcomes for young children with developmental disabilities. Although the latter area constitutes the bulk of his current interests, they are not restricted to it.
Lab Members
Research interests: Autism; Staff and Parent training; Working with and training students and teachers at school district
Research interests: Behavioral education; Instructional design; Precision Teaching; Direct Instruction; Autism; Stimulus control; Organizational Behavior Management
Research interests: Early intervention; staff, parent, and teacher training; verbal behavior; self-management; gambling; incidental teaching; applications of behavior analysis in classrooms
Research interests: Behavior Acquisition in Children with Developmental Disabilities; Treatment of Childhood Autism; Social Skills Training; Behavioral Treatment of Addictions
Research interests: Autism; Early Intervention; Gambling
Kerri Milyko, M.A., BCBA
Thesis title: An Investigation of Rapid Automatic Naming as a Generalized Operant
Research interests: Precision Teaching; Percentile Schedules of Reinforcement; Direct Instruction; Curriculum Based Assessment; Behavioral Education
Valerie R. Rogers, M.A., BCBA
Research interests: Operant Variability; Extinction; Autism; Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention; Parent Training; Staff Training; Self-Monitoring; Perspective Taking
Recent publications: Ghezzi, P. M., & Rogers, V. R (in press). Promoting generalization. In J. K. Luiselli (Ed.), Teaching and behavior support for children and adults with autism spectrum disorders: A “how” to” practitioner’s guide. New York: Oxford University Press.
Research interests: Applying behavior analysis in the educational treatment of autism; Functional analysis and treatment of pediatric behavior disorders; Parent, teacher and staff training; Self monitoring procedures; Behavioral interventions with adolescents in state homes
Pre-doc title: A Comparisons of Data Collection Methods (Advisors: Michele Wallace, Ph.D. & Patrick Ghezzi, Ph.D.)
Research interests: Functional Analysis; Functional Behavior Assessments; Problem Behavior; Measurements in BA; Precision Teaching; BA in Education
Research interests: Early Childhood Autism Intervention; Staff/Parent Training
Research interests: Gambling Behavior; Probabilistic and Delayed Discounting; Differences in Hypothetical versus Real Rewards in Research; Generalization of Acquired Responses in Children with Autism; Imitative Repertoire Development; Dissemination of Behavior Analysis; Science and Pseudoscience as it Pertains to Behavior Analysis
Contact
For further information please contact Dr. Ghezzi at:
Patrick M. Ghezzi
Department of Psychology / 296
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557
USA
Department of Psychology / 296
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557
USA
Phone #: (775) 682-8687
Fax #: (775) 784-1126
Email: patrickg@unr.edu
Fax #: (775) 784-1126
Email: patrickg@unr.edu