Julie Vargas
| Julie S. Vargas | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1938 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Education |
bachelors in music masters in music education Ph.D. in educational research |
| Alma mater |
Radcliffe College Columbia University University of Pittsburgh |
| Occupation | academic |
| Employer | B. F. Skinner Foundation |
| Title | President |
| Spouse(s) | Ernest A. Vargas |
| Website |
www |
Julie S. Vargas (born 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota)[1] is an educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior.[2]
Vargas is the daughter of B.F. Skinner, and serves as the President of the B. F. Skinner Foundation, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vargas is an officer of The International Society for Behaviorology.[3]
Biography
Vargas received a bachelors in music from Radcliffe College, a masters in music education from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in educational research from the University of Pittsburgh. She served as 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
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". Behaviorology may be defined as the natural science of the behavior of organisms.
Bibliography
- 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. Applied Behavior Analysis for Educators. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 0-8058-5787-7.
- 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, 2009.
References
- ↑ Arntzen, Erik (2010). "Interview With Julie S. Vargas" (PDF). European Journal of Behavior Analysis. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ↑ Freedman, David H. (June 2012). "The Perfected Self". The Atlantic Magazine. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ↑ "Routledge Education Author of the Month May 2011 – Julie S. Vargas". Retrieved 3 Jun 2013.
- ↑ Julie S. Vargas, (2004). "Contingencies over B. F. Skinner’s Discovery of Contingencies". European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 5, pp. 137-142.
- ↑ An overview and a preview of Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching can be found at Google Books.
External links
- Julie Vargas's personal website
- B. F. Skinner Foundation
- The International Society for Behaviorology