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Appropriate for all upper-level courses in basic principles, applications, and behavioural research methods.

This text provides an accurate, comprehensive, and contemporary description of applied behavior analysis in order to help 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 features coverage of advances in all three interrelated domains of the sciences of behavior–theoretical, basic research, and applied research. It also includes updated and new content on topics such as negative reinforcement (Ch. 12), motivation (Ch. 16), verbal behavior (Ch. 18), functional behavioural assessment (Ch. 25), and ethics (Ch. 29).

Applied Behavior Analysis, Global Edition

• 1. Definition and Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis
• 2. Basic Concepts and Principles
• 3. Selecting and Defining Target Behaviors
• 4. Measuring Behavior
• 5. Improving and Assessing the Quality of Behavioral Measurement
• 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
• 11. Positive Reinforcement
• 12. Negative Reinforcement
• 13. Schedules of Reinforcement
• 14. Positive Punishment
• 15. Negative Punishment
• 16. Motivating Operations
• 17. Stimulus Control
• 18. Verbal Behavior
• 19. Imitation, Modeling, and Observational Learning
• 20. Shaping
• 21. Chaining
• 22. Extinction
• 23. Differential Reinforcement
• 24. Antecedent Interventions
• 25.Functional Behavior Assessment
• 26. Token Economy, Group Contingencies, and Contingency Contracting
• 27. Self-Management
• 28. Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior Change
• 29. Ethical and Professional Responsibilities of Applied Behavior Analysts