This week our special guest becomes our special guest co-host as Nick Green from BehaviorFit returns to the podcast to talk with us about behavioral fitness.\xa0 Can the Good Behavior Game increase our activity levels? And just how do variable-ratio schedules deal with obesity.\xa0 All that, plus an update on Nick's movement about movement.\xa0 Don't make the rest of us run: we're full of chocolate!
Articles discussed this episode:
De Luca, R.V. & Holborn, S.W.\xa0 (1992).\xa0 Effects of a variable-ratio reinforcement schedule with changing criteria on exercise in obese and nonobese boys.\xa0\xa0Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,\xa0 25, 671-679.\xa0 doi: 10.1901/jaba.1992.25-671
Galbraith, L.A. & Normand, M.P.\xa0 (2017).\xa0 Step it UP! Using the Good Behavior Game to increase physical activity with elementary school students at recess.\xa0\xa0Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 50, 856-860.\xa0 doi: 10.1002/jaba.402
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