Applied Behavior Analysis, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (14 July 2021) © 2022

  • 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

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.

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

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