Appropriate for all upper-level courses in basic principles, applications, and behavioural research methods.
This text provides an accurate, comprehensive, and contemporary description of applied behavior analysis in order to help students acquire fundamental knowledge and skills.
Applied Behavior Analysis provides a comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the field, offering a complete description of the principles and procedures for changing and analysing socially important behaviour. The 3rd Edition features coverage of advances in all three interrelated domains of the sciences of behavior-theoretical, basic research, and applied research. It also includes updated and new content on topics such as negative reinforcement (Ch. 12), motivation (Ch. 16), verbal behavior (Ch. 18), functional behavioural assessment (Ch. 25), and ethics (Ch. 29).
1. Definition and Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis
2. Basic Concepts and Principles
3. Selecting and Defining Target Behaviors
4. Measuring Behavior
5. Improving and Assessing the Quality of Behavioral Measurement
6. Constructing and Interpreting Graphic Displays of Behavioral Data
7. Analyzing Behavior Change: Basic Assumptions and Strategies
8. Reversal and Multielement Designs
9. Multiple Baseline and Changing Criterion Designs
10. Planning and Evaluating Applied Behavior Analysis Research
11. Positive Reinforcement
12. Negative Reinforcement
13. Schedules of Reinforcement
14. Positive Punishment
15. Negative Punishment
16. Motivating Operations
17. Stimulus Control
18. Verbal Behavior
19. Imitation, Modeling, and Observational Learning
20. Shaping
21. Chaining
22. Extinction
23. Differential Reinforcement
24. Antecedent Interventions
25.Functional Behavior Assessment
26. Token Economy, Group Contingencies, and Contingency Contracting
27. Self-Management
28. Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior Change
29. Ethical and Professional Responsibilities of Applied Behavior Analysts
