Lewis A Bizo BSC(Otago) PGDipSci(Otago) PhD(Otago) Lewis A Bizo PhD, Senior Lecturer and Head, Department of Psychology at Southern Cross University. He has extensive research experience in experimental psychology generally. He has been awarded two international awards for his research by the American Psychological Association: the 1997 APA Division of Experimental Analysis of Behavior Outstanding Dissertation Award for his PhD dissertation that was on timing behaviour, and the 1999 APA Division of Experimental Psychology New Investigator Award in Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. He has over 20 publications in international and peer reviewed journals. He has active research interests in experimental psychology in the areas of: timing and time perception, human instrumental conditioning (including issues related to schedule performance, delay discounting, and motivating student learning), applications of learning theory to issues such as use of praise in the classroom, gambling, drug and alcohol addiction. He has acted as guest reviewer for numerous papers and journals. From 1998 to 2002 was a Consulting Editor for the journal Learning & Behavior. He has recently joined the board of reviewers for the electronic journal Analysis of Gambling Behavior.
Journal articles
Modeling the effects of fluoxetine on food-reinforced behavior (with Federico Sanabria, Jazmin I. Acosta, Peter R. Killeen, and Janet L. Niesewander), Behavioural Pharmacology (2008)
We propose a novel method to dissociate incentive motivation from memory and motor processes in...
DTkid: interactive simulation software for training tutors of children with autism (with Tom Randell, Martin Hall, and Bob Remington), Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2007)
Discrete-trial training (DTT) relies critically on implementation by trained tutors. We report three experiments carried...
Temporal generalization and peak shift in humans (with Claire V. McMahon), Learning and Behavior (2007)
Three experiments investigated temporal generalization in humans. In Experiment 1, a peak shift effect was...
Dopamine agonists and antagonists can produce an attenuation of response bias in a temporal discrimination task depending on discriminability of target duration (with David N. Harper and Heather Peters), Behavioural Processes (2006)
The current study examined the effects of the D2 agonist (quinpirole) and D2 antagonist (eticlopride)...
Erroneous beliefs among frequent fruit-machine gamblers (with Carla-Jane R. Strickland, Annie Taylor, Katie J. Hendon, and Steve Provost), Gambling Research: Journal of the National Association for Gambling Studies (Australia) (2006)
The present studies investigated the extent to which fruit-machine gamblers held erroneous beliefs, specifically the...
Book chapters
Time's causes (with Peter R. Killeen and J Gregor Fetterman), Time and behavior: Psychological and Neurobehavioural Analyses (1997)
What is time? St. Augustine knew: “I know what time is”, he said, “but if...
Presentations
Aggressive behaviour in dogs, the role of learning (with Ed Redhead and Anne McBride), 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis (2006)
Aggressive behaviour in dogs has become a major topic of scientific research in Northern Europe...
Animal behaviour therapy: the mis-understood application of ABA (with Anne McBride and Ed Redhead), 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis (2006)
Animal Behaviour Therapy is an expanding applied area that is rapidly gaining recognition as a...
Conference publications
Scalar timing: A test of two timing models with humans, 34th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (2007)
Erroneous beliefs among frequent fruit-machine gamblers (with Carla-Jane R. Strickland, Annie Taylor, Katie J. Hendon, and Steve Provost), 16th Annual Conference of the National Association of Gambling Studies (2006)
The present studies investigated the extent to which fruit-machine gamblers held erroneous beliefs, specifically the...
Influences of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, mood and aversive feedback on simulated physiotherapy performance (with Imogen Tijou and Lucy Yardley), British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference (2005)
The literature suggests self-efficacy (SE), outcome expectations (OE), mood and pain are important in physiotherapy...
Influence of beliefs, mood and aversive feedback on adherence to a physiotherapy simulation (with Imogen Tijou and Lucy Yardley), British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference (2004)
This pilot study aimed to assess the contribution of self-efficacy (SE) and outcome expectations (OE;...
Temporal generalisation (with Claire V. McMahon), 31st Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (2004)
Three experiments investigated temporal generalisation performance with humans. In Experiment 1 a peak shift effect...