Staff Members

Dr Lewis Bizo

Role: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: BSc, PGDipSci, PhD (Otago) Email: lbizo@waikato.ac.nz Location: J1.02 Contact: +64 7 838 4466 ext. 6401

Research Interests:

My research interests are predominantly in the areas of the experimental and applied analysis of behaviour. Specifically, I am interested understanding how schedules of reinforcement control behaviour and what factors affect stimulus generalization and discrimination.

I also have long standing interests in the study of time perception and the testing of mathematical models of internal clock models with both animals and humans. Since gaining my PhD my research interests have broadened and include active interests in: health and well-being, educational psychology, basic experimental psychology, animal cognition and welfare and I am also interested in the application of learning theory to a variety of areas in psychology, such as the study of addiction, self-control, education and training.

Selected Publications:

Tijou I., Yardley, L., Sedikedes, C., & Bizo L. A. (2008). Understanding adherence to physiotherapy: findings from an experimental simulation and an observational clinical study. (in press Psychology and Health).

Sanabria, F, Acosta, J. I., Killeen, P. R., Neisewander, J. L., & Bizo, L. A. (2008). Modeling the effects of fluoxetine on food-reinforced behavior. Behavioural Pharmacology, 19, 61-70.

Randell, T., Hall, M., Bizo, L., & Remington, B. (2007). DTkid: Interactive simulation software for training tutors of children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 637-647.

Bizo, L. A., & McMahon, C. V. (2007). Temporal generalization and peak shift in humans. Learning & Behavior, 35, 123-130.

Strickland, C-J. R., Taylor, A., Hendon, K. J., Provost, S., & Bizo, L. A. (2006). Erroneous beliefs among frequent fruit-machine gamblers. Gambling Research, 18, 42-54.

Prichard, J. S., Stratford, R. J., & Bizo, L. A. (2006). The effects of team-skills training on collaborative learning in a controlled environment. Learning and Instruction, 16, 256-265.

Prichard, J. S., Bizo, L. A., & Stratford, R. J. (2006). The educational impact of team skills training: Preparing students to work in groups. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 119-140.

Bizo, L. A., Chu, J. Y. M., Sanabria, F., & Killeen, P. R. (2006). The failure of Weber’s law in time perception and production. Behavioural Processes, 71, 201-210.

Harper, D. N., Bizo, L. A., & Peters, H. (2006). Dopamine agonists and antagonists can produce an attenuation of response bias in a temporal discrimination task depending on discriminability of target duration. Behavioural Processes, 71, 286-296.

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Dr Lewis Bizo

Expertise:

I received my PhD in 1994 from the University of Otago. My PhD tested a mathematical model of an internal clock with animals. I subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Arizona State University and have held academic positions at the University of Southampton in the UK and Southern Cross University in Australia prior to taking up my position at the University of Waikato.

My teaching has primarily focussed on undergraduate courses in learning, experimental and applied behaviour analysis, and animal cognition.

I am particularly interested in supervising graduate students on topics in the areas of the experimental and applied analysis of behaviour. I am particularly interested in supervising students on topics related to the study of schedules of reinforcement, delay discounting and self-control, behavioural variability, stimulus generalization and peak shift, or tests of internal clock models with either animals or humans, and selected topics in applied analysis of behaviour by negotiation.

Behaviour Analysis