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This text provides an accurate, comprehensive, and contemporary description of applied behavior analysis in order to help readers 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 analyzing socially important behavior. The 3rd Edition features coverage of advances in all three interrelated domains of the sciences of behavior-theoretical, basic research, and applied research-and two new chapters, Equivalence-based Instruction (Ch. 19) and Engineering Emergent Learning with Nonequivalence Relations (Ch. 20). It also includes updated and new content on topics such as negative reinforcement (Ch. 12), motivation (Ch. 16), verbal behavior (Ch. 18), functional behavioral assessment (Ch. 27), and ethics (Ch. 31). The content of the text is now connected to the BCBA(R) and BCABA(R) Behavior Analyst Task List, 5th Edition.Product IdentifiersPublisherPearson Product ID (ePID)242868473Product Key FeaturesAuthorTimothy Heron, John Cooper, William HewardPublication NameApplied Behavior Year2019TypeTextbookNumber of Pages912 PagesDimensionsItem Length3.9inItem Height2.1inItem Width3.9inItem Weight81.8 OzAdditional Product FeaturesLc Classification NumberBf199.C65 2018Edition Number3Table of ContentBrief Contents PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND BASIC CONCEPTS Definition and Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis Basic Concepts and Principles PART 2: SELECTING, DEFINING, AND MEASURING BEHAVIOR Selecting and Defining Target Behaviors Measuring Behavior Improving and Assessing the Quality of Behavioral Measurement PART 3: EVALUATING AND ANALYZING BEHAVIOR CHANGE Constructing and Interpreting Graphic Displays of Behavioral Data Analyzing Behavior Change: Basic Assumptions and Strategies Reversal and Multielement Designs Multiple Baseline and Changing Criterion Designs Planning and Evaluating Applied Behavior Analysis Research PART 4: REINFORCEMENT Positive Reinforcement Negative Reinforcement Schedules of Reinforcement PART 5: PUNISHMENT Positive Punishment Negative Punishment PART 6: ANTECEDENT VARIABLES Motivating Operations Stimulus Control PART 7: VERBAL BEHAVIOR Verbal Behavior PART 8: DEVELOPING NEW BEHAVIOR Equivalence-based Instruction Engineering Emergent Learning with Nonequivalence Relations Imitation, Modeling, and Observational Learning Shaping Chaining PART 9: DECREASING BEHAVIOR WITH NONPUNISHMENT PROCEDURES Extinction Differential Reinforcement Antecedent Interventions PART 10: FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT Functional Behavior Assessment PART 11: SPECIAL APPLICATIONS Token Economy, Group Contingencies, and Contingency Contracting Self-Management PART 12: PROMOTING GENERALIZED BEHAVIOR CHANGE Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior Change PART 13: ETHICS Ethical and Professional Responsibilities of Applied Behavior AnalystsCopyright Date2020TopicProfessional Development, Special Education / General, General, Movements / BehaviorismLccn2019-018292Dewey Decimal158/.9Intended AudienceCollege AudienceDewey Edition23GenreEducation, Psychology