Applied Behavior Analysis: Principles and Procedures in Behavior ModificationApplied Behavior Analysis: Principles & Procedures for Modifying Behavior provides today’s students with a handbook to help them design and conduct interventions to modify behaviors when they enter professional careers. This text will serve as a resource for students who plan to become behavior analysts to design and conduct interventions to change clients’ behaviors. Author, Ed Sarafino provides an understanding of the fundamental techniques of applied behavior analysis by presenting its concepts and procedures in a logical sequence and giving clear definitions and examples of each technique. The text will guide students to learn,
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Contents
Introducing Applied Behavior Analysis | 1 |
Chapter | 7 |
Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis | 13 |
Identifying and Assessing Target Behaviors | 19 |
How to Assess Target Behaviors | 25 |
Tips on Identifying and Assessing Behavior | 34 |
Graphing Data | 40 |
Basic Research Designs | 46 |
When Negative Reinforcement Is Used | 223 |
Using Intermittent Positive Reinforcement | 236 |
Eliminating a Behaviors Reinforcers | 249 |
Deciding Whether to Use Punishment | 262 |
Aversive Activities | 276 |
Cautions and Ethics in Using Positive Punishment | 279 |
Study and Review | 285 |
Checking and Adjusting the Program Design | 291 |
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ChangingCriterion and AlternatingTreatment Designs | 55 |
Some Areas of Effective Application | 63 |
Training People With Mental Retardation | 69 |
Changing Ones Own Behavior | 75 |
Unconditioned and Conditioned Reinforcement | 81 |
Factors That Influence the Effectiveness of Reinforcement | 87 |
Extinction | 93 |
Natural and Programmed Punishment | 106 |
Stimulus Control | 119 |
Motivation | 132 |
Unconditioned and Conditioned Motivating Operations | 137 |
PART III | 143 |
Shaping Problem Behaviors | 149 |
Prompting | 155 |
Response Prompt Fading | 161 |
Forming and Analyzing Behavioral Chains | 167 |
Is One Training Method Best? | 173 |
Methods for Modifying Operant Behaviors | 177 |
From Functional Assessment to Program Design | 191 |
Using MOs That Encourage an Alternative Behavior | 206 |
Who Will Administer Reinforcement? | 219 |
Ways to Maintain Behavior Changes | 297 |
Study and Review | 304 |
Cancer Treatment Reactions | 310 |
Functional Assessment of Respondent Behaviors | 316 |
Counterconditioning | 322 |
Relaxation Techniques | 323 |
The Systematic Desensitization Procedure | 329 |
Tips on Changing Respondent Behaviors | 335 |
Shaping 143 | 339 |
The Importance of Training and Developmental Level | 341 |
Behavioral Contracts and SelfManagement | 348 |
Managing Consequences in SelfManagement | 356 |
Whats Needed to Start a Token Economy | 362 |
The Purpose and Structure of Achievement Place | 365 |
Training Mands and Tacts | 379 |
Study and Review | 393 |
Glossary | 403 |
References | 411 |
Author Index | 451 |
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