Summary
Julie Skinner Vargas (born 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota)[1] is an American educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior.[2]
Julie S. Vargas | |
|---|---|
| Born | Julie Skinner 1938 (age 85–86) |
| Education | Bachelor in music Master in music education Ph.D. in educational research |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College Columbia University University of Pittsburgh |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Employer | B. F. Skinner Foundation |
| Notable work | West Virginia University |
| Title | President |
| Spouse | Ernest A. Vargas |
Vargas is the daughter of B.F. Skinner and is the president of the B. F. Skinner Foundation, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is an officer of The International Society for Behaviorology.[3]
Biography edit
Vargas received a bachelor's degree in music from Radcliffe College, a master's degree in music education from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in educational research from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a faculty member at West Virginia University, where she and her husband, Ernest A. Vargas, taught for more than 30 years in the College of Human Resources and Education.
Behaviorology: Skinner's new science edit
Vargas has written that "What B. F. Skinner began is not an 'approach', 'view', 'discipline', 'field', or 'theory'. It was, and is, a science, differing from psychology in its dependent variables, its measurement system, its procedures, and its analytic framework".[4] She and a number of her colleagues have given Skinner's science the name "behaviorology", which may be defined as the natural science of the behavior of organisms.
Bibliography edit
- Writing Worthwhile Behavioral Objectives, 1973, Harper & Row
- Behavioral Psychology for Teachers, 1977, Harper & Row
- Bernice Stewart, Julie S. Vargas (1990). Teaching Behavior to Infants and Toddlers: A Manual for Caregivers and Parents. C.C. Thomas. ISBN 0-398-05638-2.
- Vargas, Julie S. (2013). Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 978-0-415-52680-7.
- Vargas, Julie Skinner (1969). Item Selection Techniques for Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced Tests. University of Pittsburgh.
Her more recent publications have been articles, including two 2005 entries on B. F. Skinner in volumes I and III of The Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching.[5] with Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2012.
References edit
- ^ Arntzen, Erik (2010). "Interview With Julie S. Vargas" (PDF). European Journal of Behavior Analysis. 11 (2): 199–204. doi:10.1080/15021149.2010.11434343. S2CID 185786929. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ Freedman, David H. (June 2012). "The Perfected Self". The Atlantic. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ "Routledge Education Author of the Month May 2011 – Julie S. Vargas". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ Julie S. Vargas, (2004). "Contingencies over B. F. Skinner’s Discovery of Contingencies"[permanent dead link]. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 5, pp. 137-142.
- ^ An overview and a preview can be found at Vargas, Julie S. (2013). Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415526807.
External links edit
- B. F. Skinner Foundation