Applied Behavior Analysis, 3rd edition

  • John O. Cooper
  • , Timothy E. Heron
  • , William L. Heward

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ISBN-13: 9780137477210 (2021 update)

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Applied Behavior Analysis, 3rd Edition, by authors Cooper, Heron, and Heward, is the standard applied behavior analysis textbook for behavior analysts and BCBA exam preparation. By focusing on principles of reinforcement and punishment, plus motivating operations, stimulus control, and verbal behavior, you’ll build the skills to define, measure, and analyze behavior.

By developing an understanding of measurement, functional behavior assessment, and the single-case research designs used to evaluate behavior change (reversal, multielement, multiple baseline, and changing criterion), you’ll learn how to design effective behavior-change interventions and evaluate their outcomes. Through the study of generalization and maintenance, as well as ethics for behavior analysts, you’ll build skills for applying the BACB task list to real-world practice settings while conducting effective, responsible behavioral analyses.

The 3rd Edition covers advances in three interrelated domains of the sciences of behavior: theoretical, basic research, and applied research. A pair of new chapters covers equivalence-based instruction and engineering for emergent learning with nonequivalence relations.

Published by Pearson (July 14th 2021) - Copyright © 2022

ISBN-13: 9780137477210

Subject: Special Education

Category: Emotional & Behavioral Disabilities

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

PART 3: EVALUATING AND ANALYZING BEHAVIOR CHANGE
6. Constructing and Interpreting Graphic Displays of Behavioral Data
7. Analyzing Behavior Change: Basic Assumptions and Strategies
8. Reversal and Multielement Designs
9. Multiple Baseline and Changing Criterion Designs
10. Planning and Evaluating Applied Behavior Analysis Research

PART 4: REINFORCEMENT
11. Positive Reinforcement
12. Negative Reinforcement
13. Schedules of Reinforcement

PART 5: PUNISHMENT
14. Positive Punishment
15. Negative Punishment

PART 6: ANTECEDENT VARIABLES
16. Motivating Operations
17. Stimulus Control

PART 7: VERBAL BEHAVIOR
18. Verbal Behavior

PART 8: DEVELOPING NEW BEHAVIOR
19. Equivalence-based Instruction
20. Engineering Emergent Learning with Nonequivalence Relations
21. Imitation, Modeling, and Observational Learning
22. Shaping
23. Chaining

PART 9: DECREASING BEHAVIOR WITH NONPUNISHMENT PROCEDURES
24. Extinction
25. Differential Reinforcement
26. Antecedent Interventions

PART 10: FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT
27.Functional Behavior Assessment

PART 11: SPECIAL APPLICATIONS
28. Token Economy, Group Contingencies, and Contingency Contracting
29. Self-Management

PART 12: PROMOTING GENERALIZED BEHAVIOR CHANGE
30. Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior Change

PART 13: ETHICS
31. Ethical and Professional Responsibilities of Applied Behavior Analysts