Principles of Everyday Behavior Analysis - Softcover

Miller, L. Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0818503734 ISBN 13: 9780818503733

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

* teaches the basic principles of behavior analysis by an extensive use of everyday examples that show the students how these principles operate in their own lives

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Review

1. Introduction to Everyday Behavior Analysis. 2. Definitions of Everyday Behaviors. 3. Methods for the Observation of Everyday Behaviors. 4. Reliability and Validity of Everyday Observations. 5. Experimental Design for Studying Everyday Behavior. 6. Visual Analysis of Behavioral Experiments. 7. Review of Behavioral Methods. 8. Reinforcement of Everyday Behaviors. 9. Extinction of Everyday Behaviors. 10. Differential Reinforcement of Everyday Behaviors. 11. Shaping Everyday Behaviors. 12. Reinforcer Effectiveness. 13. Ratio Schedules. 14. Interval Schedules of Reinforcement. 15. Review of Reinforcement. 16. Stimulus Discrimination and Everyday Behavior. 17. Generalization Training of Everyday Behaviors. 18. Programming and Fading. 19. Imitation and Instructions. 20. Conditioned Reinforcers and Everyday Situations. 21. Review of Stimulus Control. 22. Punishment by Contingent Stimulation. 23. Punishment by Contingent Withdrawal. 24. Negative Reinforcement. 25. Review of Aversive Control.

About the Author

L. Keith Miller earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Sociology and is currently a professor of Human Developments at the University of Kansas. Dr. Miller's research interests concentrate on applied behavioral analysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0818503734
• ISBN 13: 9780818503733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 512