This article updates the current conceptualization, measurement, and use of the adaptive behavior construct. Major sections of the article address an understanding of the construct, the current approaches to its measurement, four assessment issues and challenges related to the use of adaptive behavior information for the diagnosis of intellectual disability, and two future issues regarding the ...

We gathered individual participant data from 16 group design studies on behavioral intervention for children with autism. In these studies, 309 children received behavioral intervention, 39 received comparison interventions, and 105 were in a control group. More children who underwent behavioral intervention achieved reliable change in IQ (29.8%) compared with 2.6% and 8.7% for comparison and c...

Objective: Many behavioral problems are resulting from inappropriate parenting styles and inattention to behavioral-emotional difficulties in childhood. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between parenting styles and dimensions of children's maladaptive behaviors. Methods: 120 six-year old boys, who were enrolled in the first grade of elementary school, were selecte...

This paper discusses the relationship between Artiicial Intelligence (AI) and Ar-tiicial Life (A-Life). A-Life research addresses a wide range of phenomena, some of which have no obvious bearing on AI research. The work most relevant to AI is suuciently coherent and distinct that it is best referred to by its own name: it is Adaptive Behavior research which is most likely to have signiicant imp...

A formal device is said to be adaptive whenever its behavior changes dynamically, in a direct response to its input stimuli, without interference of external agents, even its users. In order to achieve this feature, adaptive devices have to be self-modifiable. In other words, any possible changes in the device’s behavior must be known at their full extent at any step of its operation in which t...

Studies of mechanisms of adaptive behavior generally focus on neurons and circuits. But adaptive behavior also depends on interactions among the nervous system, body and environment: sensory preprocessing and motor post-processing filter inputs to and outputs from the nervous system; co-evolution and co-development of nervous system and periphery create matching and complementarity between them...

This paper discusses a rapidly evolving eld with great relevance for cognitive psychology, the eld of adaptive behavior. Its goal is to learn about biological behavior by constructing agents exhibiting that behavior, but it is very di erent from traditional arti cial intelligence. It is argued that rather than providing mere implementations of the abstract theories of cognitive psychology, the ...

A model of online reading engagement is outlined. This model proposes that online reading engagement predicts dedication in digital reading. Dedication in digital reading according to the model is reflected in task-adaptive navigation, and task-adaptive navigation predicts digital reading performance over and above print reading skill. Information engagement is assumed to positively predict tas...

a. Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 238 Burnett Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA, [email protected] b. Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany, [email protected] c. Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Be...