Applied Behavior Analysis: Principles and Procedures in Behavior Modification

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John Wiley & Sons, Oct 25, 2011 - Psychology - 496 pages
Applied 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,

  • how to identify and define the behavior to be changed and how a response is determined by its antecedents and consequences,
  • usable, practical skills by specifically stating the purpose of each technique, describing how it is carried out, and presenting guidelines and tips to maximize its effectiveness,
  • why and how to design a program to change a behavioral deficit or excess by conducting a functional assessment and then selecting and combining techniques that can be directed at the behavior itself and its antecedents and consequences, and,
  • to illustrate why and how to collect and analyze data.
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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

Advanced Research Designs in Behavior Analysis
49
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
Managing Antecedents
466
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Dr. Edward P. Sarafino is a professor of psychology and is on the board of trustees for The College of New Jersey. He received his BA from Chico State University and his doctorate from the University of Colorado.

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