Montrose Madison Wolf (May 29, 1935 – March 19, 2004) was an American psychologist. He developed the technique of " time-out" as a learning tool to shape behavior in children in the 1960s. He was a leader in creating the discipline of problem-solving, real-world psychological research known as

applied behavior analysis Applied behavior analysis (ABA), also called behavioral engineering, is a psychological intervention that applies empirical approaches based upon the principles of respondent and operant conditioning to change behavior of social significanc ...

. He created the

Teaching Family Model The Teaching-Family Model (TFM) is a model of care for persons in need of services and care necessary to support an improved quality of life and increase opportunities to live to their potential. The TFM is used internationally in residential homes ...

as an intervention program for dealing with juvenile delinquents. He helped replicate this model almost 800 times. In the field of

he introduced and named the concept of social validity. Donald Baer, Sidney W. Bijou, Todd Risley, James Sherman, and Wolf established the ''

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis The ''Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis'' (JABA) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes empirical research related to applied behavior analysis. It was established in 1968 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of t ...

'', in 1968 as a peer-reviewed journal publishing research about

experimental analysis of behavior The experimental analysis of behavior is school of thought in psychology founded on B. F. Skinner's philosophy of radical behaviorism and defines the basic principles used in applied behavior analysis. A central principle was the inductive reasoning ...

and its practical applications.

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