Applied Behavior Analysis

ISBN: 0134752554

Author: Cooper, John

Condition: New

This text provides an accurate, comprehensive, and contemporary description of applied behavior analysis in order to help readers 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 analyzing socially important behavior. The 3rd Edition features coverage of advances in all three interrelated domains of the sciences of behavior-theoretical, basic research, and applied research-and two new chapters, Equivalence-based Instruction (Ch. 19) and Engineering Emergent Learning with Nonequivalence Relations (Ch. 20). It also includes updated and new content on topics such as negative reinforcement (Ch. 12), motivation (Ch. 16), verbal behavior (Ch. 18), functional behavioral assessment (Ch. 27), and ethics (Ch. 31). The content of the text is now connected to the BCBA and BCABA Behavior Analyst Task List, 5th Edition.Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTION AND BASIC CONCEPTS 1. Definition and Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis2. Basic Concepts and PrinciplesPART 2: SELECTING, DEFINING, AND MEASURING BEHAVIOR3. Selecting and Defining Target Behaviors4. Measuring Behavior5. Improving and Assessing the Quality of Behavioral MeasurementPART 3: EVALUATING AND ANALYZING BEHAVIOR CHANGE6. Constructing and Interpreting Graphic Displays of Behavioral Data7. Analyzing Behavior Change: Basic Assumptions and Strategies8. Reversal and Multielement Designs9. Multiple Baseline and Changing Criterion Designs10. Planning and Evaluating Applied Behavior Analysis ResearchPART 4: REINFORCEMENT11. Positive Reinforcement12. Negative Reinforcement13. Schedules of ReinforcementPART 5: PUNISHMENT14. Positive Punishment15. Negative PunishmentPART 6: ANTECEDENT VARIABLES16. Motivating Operations17. Stimulus ControlPART 7: VERBAL BEHAVIOR18. Verbal BehaviorPART 8: DEVELOPING NEW BEHAVIOR19. Equivalence-based Instruction20. Engineering Emergent Learning with Nonequivalence Relations21. Imitation, Modeling, and Observational Learning22. Shaping23. ChainingPART 9: DECREASING BEHAVIOR WITH NONPUNISHMENT PROCEDURES24. Extinction25. Differential Reinforcement26. Antecedent InterventionsPART 10: FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT27.Functional Behavior AssessmentPART 11: SPECIAL APPLICATIONS28. Token Economy, Group Contingencies, and Contingency Contracting29. Self-ManagementPART 12: PROMOTING GENERALIZED BEHAVIOR CHANGE30. Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior ChangePART 13: ETHICS31. Ethical and Professional Responsibilities of Applied Behavior Analysts