
Overview
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Martha Pelaez is a Frost Professor at the School of Education and Human Development, Florida International University. She received her PhD in 1992 in Developmental Psychology, winning the International Dissertation Award from the International Society for Infant Studies for her research on "Infant learning to reference maternal emotional expressions." After completing a postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Miami, in 1994, she became Assistant Professor of Psychology at FIU, Associate Professor in 1998, and full Professor in 2004. She received the Frost Professor award in 2006, a College of Education formal recognition for excellence in research and scholarly work. She has supervised students' doctoral dissertations and master theses, teaches courses in Educational Psychology and Child and Adolescent Development, Applied Behavior Analysis, Single Subject Designs, and directs infant and early childhood research.
Dr. Pelaez was the past Program Chair for the American Psychological Association, for Division 25 and past Program Co-Chair for the Association for Behavior Analysis. Dr. Pelaez has served as the Legislative Liaison with the Florida Legislature. In 2005 and 2006, she Chaired the Advisory Council of Faculty Senates of Florida (ACFS) and was member of numerous program review and search and screen committees. Between 2003 and 2006, she served as a member of the ACC (Articulation Coordinating Committee) of the Florida Department of Education, Chaired the Advisory Council of Faculty Senates ACFS representing Florida SUS faculty, and served as member of the Florida Board of Governors.
Dr. Pelaez serves as the vice chair of the FIU Faculty Senate.
She has four daughters, 11 grandchildren and a baby girl on her way, and enjoys sailing and raising.
research interests
- Mother-infant attachment, maternal depression effects on infant behavior, interventions using touch to increase infant attention and early socialization, the effects of adult vocal imitation and motherese
Scholarly & Creative Works
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Article
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2018Development of Communication in Infants: Implications for Stimulus Relations ResearchFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40614-018-0151-z Web of Science: 000438655300009
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2016Behavior Analytic Concepts and Change in a Large Metropolitan Research University: The Graduation Success InitiativeFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/01608061.2016.1200513 Web of Science: 000384231300003
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2013Dimensions of Rules and Their Correspondence to Rule-Governed BehaviorFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/15021149.2013.11434459
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2013Social referencing in infants of mothers with symptoms of depressionFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.05.003 Web of Science: 000329551400009
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2013“Hidden” Skills and Deficits in the Emergence of AutismFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/15021149.2013.11434447
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2012ACQUISITION OF SOCIAL REFERENCING VIA DISCRIMINATION TRAINING IN INFANTSFull Text via DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2012.45-23 Web of Science: 000301320800002
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2011REINFORCEMENT OF VOCALIZATIONS THROUGH CONTINGENT VOCAL IMITATIONFull Text via DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2011.44-33 Web of Science: 000288304100003
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2009BREAKUP DISTRESS IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTSWeb of Science: 000273955200002
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2008TEMPORAL RELATIONS AND INTELLIGENCE: CORRELATING RELATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH PERFORMANCE ON THE WAIS-IIIFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/BF03395638 Web of Science: 000261082700005
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2008Disengaged and authoritarian parenting behavior of depressed mothers with their toddlersFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.06.002 Web of Science: 000252939700014
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2005Derived relational responding and performance on verbal subtests of the wais-iiiFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/BF03395504
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1998Food texture preferences in infants versus toddlersFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/0300443981460107
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1998Depressed mothers' interactions with their one-year-old infantsFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(98)90024-8 Web of Science: 000075654900010
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1997The effects of systematic stroking versus tickling and poking on infant behaviorFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0193-3973(97)90034-4 Web of Science: A1997YC68700002
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1996Depressed mothers' touching increases infants' positive affect and attention in still-face interactionsFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01827.x Web of Science: A1996VP34400031
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1996Infants' preference for touch stimulation in face-to-face interactionsFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0193-3973(96)90025-8 Web of Science: A1996UW18500003
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Book
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2019
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1992Social Referencing as a Learned Process. 151-173.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-2462-9_7
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Note
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2021Frances Degen Horowitz's influence on behavioral systems theory. 1293-1296.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jaba.878
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2002A behavior-analytic developmental model is better. 466-468.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x02340081
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1993EXPECTANCY - SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MENTALISM, NOT MECHANISM OR PROCESS. 1156-1157.Web of Science: A1993MG00600010
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Other Scholarly Work
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Review
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2017Operant conditioning methodologies to investigate infant learning. 212-241.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/15021149.2017.1412633
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1992SKINNER,B.F. LEGACY TO HUMAN INFANT BEHAVIOR AND DEVELOPMENT. 1411-1422.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.47.11.1411 Web of Science: A1992JX97100014
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Crooks, Noel Alexander, Contingent-relations description facilitates rule-following in a subsequent generalization task 1997
Contact
full name
- Martha Pelaez-Nogueras