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Applied Behavior Analysis: Principles & Procedures for Modifying Behavior provides today's students with a handbook to help them design and conduct interventions to modify behaviors when they enter professional careers. This text will serve as a resource for students who plan to become behavior analysts to design and conduct interventions to change clients’ behaviors. Author, Ed Sarafino provides an understanding of the fundamental techniques of applied behavior analysis by presenting its concepts and procedures in a logical sequence and giving clear definitions and examples of each technique. The text will guide students to learn, how to identify and define the behavior to be changed and how a response is determined by its antecedents and consequences, usable, practical skills by specifically stating the purpose of each technique, describing how it is carried out, and presenting guidelines and tips to maximize its effectiveness, why and how to design a program to change a behavioral deficit or excess by conducting a functional assessment and then selecting and combining techniques that can be directed at the behavior itself and its antecedents and consequences, and, to illustrate why and how to collect and analyze data. Applied Behavior Analysis: Principles & Procedures for Modifying Behavior is available in alternate versions (eBooks and custom) for professors and students. For more information, visit the ""Instructor's Resource"" tab or ""Student Resource"" tab below.

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Author:   Edward P. Sarafino (The College of New Jersey)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780470571521

ISBN 10:   0470571527
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   06 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

PART I Introducing Applied Behavior Analysis 1 Chapter 1 What Is Applied Behavior Analysis? 1 Chapter 2 Identifying and Assessing Target Behaviors 19 Chapter 3 Using Data and Research Methods in Behavior Analysis 37 Chapter 4 Some Areas of Effective Application 63 PART II Basic Operant Principles 78 Chapter 5 Reinforcement: Positive and Negative 78 Chapter 6 Extinction 93 Chapter 7 Punishment 104 Chapter 8 Antecedents: Stimulus Control 119 Chapter 9 Motivation 132 PART III Methods to Establish New Operant Behaviors 143 Chapter 10 Shaping 143 Chapter 11 Shortcut Stimulus Control Methods 154 Chapter 12 Chaining Behaviors 166 PART IV Methods for Modifying Operant Behaviors 177 Chapter 13 Functional Assessment and Program Design 177 Chapter 14 Managing Antecedents 198 Chapter 15 Using Basic Reinforcement Procedures to Increase a Behavior 212 Chapter 16 Using Advanced Reinforcement Procedures to Increase a Behavior 228 Chapter 17 Using Extinction, Differential Reinforcement, and Habit Reversal to Decrease a Behavior 247 Chapter 18 Using Time-Out and Response-Cost Punishment to Decrease a Behavior 261 Chapter 19 Using Positive Punishment to Decrease a Behavior 273 Chapter 20 Maximizing and Maintaining Operant Behavior Changes 287 PART V Respondent Behaviors and Ways to Change Them 306 Chapter 21 Respondent Conditioning 306 Chapter 22 Changing Respondent Behaviors 320 PART VI Specialized Topics in Behavior Analysis 339 Chapter 23 Biofeedback 339 Chapter 24 Behavioral Contracts and Self-Management 348 Chapter 25 Token Economies 360 Chapter 26 Rule-Governed and Verbal Behavior 374 PART VII Current Concerns and Future Issues 383 Chapter 27 Dilemmas and Ethics 383 Chapter 28 Future Challenges for the Field and You 395 Glossary 403 References 411 Author Index 451 Subject Index 461

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Edward P. Sarafino received his PhD from the University of Colorado and immediately began his 32-year affiliation with the Department of Psychology at The College of New Jersey. His scholarship continues to combine areas of health and behavioral psychology, particularly in his study of asthma. In addition to having published dozens of research articles and chapters, he is the author of six books. He is a member of Division 25 (The Experimental Analysis of Behavior) of the American Psychological Association and is a fellow of Division 38 (Health Psychology). He served as an officer (secretary) of Division 38, and has been a member of several committees of the Division and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. When he is not working, he enjoys being with family and friends, traveling, hiking and other outdoor activities, and going to cultural events, especially music and visual arts.

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