Appropriate for all upper-level courses in basic principles, applications, and behavioral 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 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® and BCABA® Behavior Analyst Task List, 5th Edition

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
　　　　3. Selecting and Defining Target Behaviors
　　　　4. Measuring Behavior
　　　　5. Improving and Assessing the Quality of Behavioral Measurement

PART 3: EVALUATING AND ANALYZING BEHAVIOR CHANGE
　　　　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

PART 4: REINFORCEMENT
　　　　11. Positive Reinforcement
　　　　12. Negative Reinforcement
　　　　13. Schedules of Reinforcement

PART 5: PUNISHMENT
　　　　14. Positive Punishment
　　　　15. Negative Punishment

PART 6: ANTECEDENT VARIABLES
　　　　16. Motivating Operations
　　　　17. Stimulus Control

PART 7: VERBAL BEHAVIOR
　　　　18. Verbal Behavior

PART 8: DEVELOPING NEW BEHAVIOR
　　　　19. Equivalence-based Instruction
　　　　20. Engineering Emergent Learning with Nonequivalence Relations
　　　　21. Imitation, Modeling, and Observational Learning
　　　　22. Shaping
　　　　23. Chaining

PART 9: DECREASING BEHAVIOR WITH NONPUNISHMENT PROCEDURES
　　　　24. Extinction
　　　　25. Differential Reinforcement
　　　　26. Antecedent Interventions

PART 10: FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT
　　　　27.Functional Behavior Assessment

PART 11: SPECIAL APPLICATIONS
　　　　28. Token Economy, Group Contingencies, and Contingency Contracting
　　　　29. Self-Management

PART 12: PROMOTING GENERALIZED BEHAVIOR CHANGE
　　　　30. Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior Change

PART 13: ETHICS
　　　　31. Ethical and Professional Responsibilities of Applied Behavior Analysts