Principles of Behavior Analysis
Lyle Grant, Atharasca University
Annabel Ness Evans, Concordia University of Alberta

ISBN-10: 0065003667
ISBN-13: 9780065003666

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1994
Format: Cloth; 500 pp
Status: Out of Print

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This text details the principles of behavior analysis (as well as the experimental evidence underlying the principles) and examines the factors that make behavioral principles effective.



 1. Behavior and Behavior Analysis.


 2. Positive Reinforcement.


 3. Decreasing Responding: Extinction, DRO, and DRI.


 4. Punishment.


 5. Escape and Avoidance.


 6. Shaping and Schedules of Reinforcement.


 7. Stimulus Discrimination.


 8. Prompting, Fading, and Chaining.


 9. Generalization.


10. Modeling.


11. Rule-Governed Behavior.


12. Feedback.


13. Pavlovian Conditioning.


14. Stimulus and Response Classes: Conceptual Behavior, Generalized Response Classes, and Equivalence Classes.

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