Education

• 1976, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Psychology.
  
• 1974, M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Psychology.
• 1971, B.A., Kent State University, Psychology.

Research Interests

• Behavioral Pharmacology and Substance Abuse
• Behavior Analysis
• Stimulus Relations and Concept Learning

  Student Research Opportunities

• Effects of club drugs (MDMA, methamphetamine, etc.) on learning in rats; Animal models of possible "cognitive enhancers"
• Concept learning in non-humans

Recent Publications

• Baron, A. & Galizio, M. (2006).The distinction between positive and negative reinforcement: Use with care. The Behavior Analyst, 29, 141-152.
• Pena, T., Pitts, & Galizio, M. (2006). Identity matching-to-sample with olfactory stimuli in rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 85, 203-221.
• Galizio, M., Miller, L., Ferguson, A., McKinney, P. & Pitts, R. C. (2006), Olfactory repeated discrimination reversal in rats: effects of chlordiazepoxide, dizocilpine and morphine. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, 1175-1179.
• Pitts, R. C., Buda, D. R., Keith, J. R., Cerutti, D. T., & Galizio, M. (2006). Chlordiazepoxide and dizocilpine, but not morphine, selectively impari acquisition under a novel repeated acquisition and performance task in rats. Psychopharmacology, 189, 135-143.
  

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Link to PSY 589 Readings

Link to Dr. Galizio's PSY 245 Page

Link to Dr. Galizio's Vita

International Studies of Animal Behavior

Stimulus Equivalence Research

Lab Readings

Dr. Mark Galizio                                                            
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wilmington, N.C., 28403
Phone: (910) 962-3813                                                  
Fax: 910-962-7010
galizio@uncwil.edu