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Applied Behavior Analysis
Principles and Procedures for Modifying Behavior

Edward P. Sarafino (Author)

9780470571521, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 6 December 2011

496 pages
23.4 x 18.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.726 kg

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.

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

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
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