Applied Behavior Analysis

Book Synopsis: 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 Contents

PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND BASIC CONCEPTS

1. Definition and Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis
2. Basic Concepts and Principles

PART 2: SELECTING, DEFINING, AND MEASURING BEHAVIOR

1. Selecting and Defining Target Behaviors
2. Measuring Behavior
3. Improving and Assessing the Quality of Behavioral Measurement

PART 3: EVALUATING AND ANALYZING BEHAVIOR CHANGE

1. Constructing and Interpreting Graphic Displays of Behavioral Data
2. Analyzing Behavior Change: Basic Assumptions and Strategies
3. Reversal and Multielement Designs
4. Multiple Baseline and Changing Criterion Designs
5. Planning and Evaluating Applied Behavior Analysis Research

PART 4: REINFORCEMENT

1. Positive Reinforcement
2. Negative Reinforcement
3. Schedules of Reinforcement

PART 5: PUNISHMENT

1. Positive Punishment
2. Negative Punishment

PART 6: ANTECEDENT VARIABLES

1. Motivating Operations
2. Stimulus Control

PART 7: VERBAL BEHAVIOR

1. Verbal Behavior

PART 8: DEVELOPING NEW BEHAVIOR

1. Equivalence-based Instruction
2. Engineering Emergent Learning with Nonequivalence Relations
3. Imitation, Modeling, and Observational Learning
4. Shaping
5. Chaining

PART 9: DECREASING BEHAVIOR WITH NONPUNISHMENT PROCEDURES

1. Extinction
2. Differential Reinforcement
3. Antecedent Interventions

PART 10: FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT

1. Functional Behavior Assessment

PART 11: SPECIAL APPLICATIONS

1. Token Economy, Group Contingencies, and Contingency Contracting
2. Self-Management

PART 12: PROMOTING GENERALIZED BEHAVIOR CHANGE

1. Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior Change

PART 13: ETHICS

1. Ethical and Professional Responsibilities of Applied Behavior Analysts