Applied Behavior Analysis, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2020

  • John O. Cooper The Ohio State University
  • Timothy E. Heron The Ohio State University
  • William L. Heward The Ohio State University
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Title overview

Upper-level courses in basic principles, applications and behavioural research methods

A comprehensive, contemporary overview of applied behaviour analysis that helps 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 covers advances in all 3 interrelated domains of the sciences of behaviour: theoretical, basic research and applied research. A pair of new chapters covers equivalence-based instruction and emergent learning with nonequivalence relations.

Table of contents

  • PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND BASIC CONCEPTS
  • Definition and Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis
  • Basic Concepts and Principles
  • PART 2: SELECTING, DEFINING, AND MEASURING BEHAVIOR
  • Selecting and Defining Target Behaviors
  • Measuring Behavior
  • Improving and Assessing the Quality of Behavioral Measurement
  • PART 3: EVALUATING AND ANALYZING BEHAVIOR CHANGE
  • Constructing and Interpreting Graphic Displays of Behavioral Data
  • Analyzing Behavior Change: Basic Assumptions and Strategies
  • Reversal and Multielement Designs
  • Multiple Baseline and Changing Criterion Designs
  • Planning and Evaluating Applied Behavior Analysis Research
  • PART 4: REINFORCEMENT
  • Positive Reinforcement
  • Negative Reinforcement
  • Schedules of Reinforcement
  • PART 5: PUNISHMENT
  • Positive Punishment
  • Negative Punishment
  • PART 6: ANTECEDENT VARIABLES
  • Motivating Operations
  • Stimulus Control
  • PART 7: VERBAL BEHAVIOR
  • Verbal Behavior
  • PART 8: DEVELOPING NEW BEHAVIOR
  • Equivalence-based Instruction
  • Engineering Emergent Learning with Nonequivalence Relations
  • Imitation, Modeling, and Observational Learning
  • Shaping
  • Chaining
  • PART 9: DECREASING BEHAVIOR WITH NONPUNISHMENT PROCEDURES
  • Extinction
  • Differential Reinforcement
  • Antecedent Interventions
  • PART 10: FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT
  • Functional Behavior Assessment
  • PART 11: SPECIAL APPLICATIONS
  • Token Economy, Group Contingencies, and Contingency Contracting
  • Self-Management
  • PART 12: PROMOTING GENERALIZED BEHAVIOR CHANGE
  • Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior Change
  • PART 13: ETHICS
  • Ethical and Professional Responsibilities of Applied Behavior Analysts

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