Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change 4th Edition eBook pdf by G. Roy Maye  ISBN 9781597380850
 
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Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change 4th Edition by G. Roy Mayer, Beth Sulzer-Azaroff, and Michele Wallace offers a comprehensive and updated introduction to the field of behavior analysis. This edition is meticulously designed to prepare readers for the BCBA exam, aligning with the BACB Fifth Edition Task List and covering all essential concepts required for supervised field application. Written by a team of respected experts in the ABA field, the book provides scientifically-supported solutions across various areas of human performance.
This edition includes an array of supportive materials, such as an instructor's guide, multiple-choice, and essay exam questions, to enhance the reader's mastery of the content. With its focus on achieving lasting behavior change, this text is an invaluable resource for students and professionals in applied behavior analysis.
 
e-Book Features : 
 
·       Written by a team of authors who are experienced, accomplished, and well-respected as scientists, scholars, consultants and teachers in the ABA field.
·       Includes the BACB Fifth Edition Task List and prepares the reader for the BCBA exam.  The text covers essentially all current concepts and readies the reader for supervised field application
·       Provides supplements to accompany and support readers' mastery of the material in the text, including
 
Brief Contents

About the Authors v
Preface xxv
1. Achieving Lasting Behavior Change by Applying Behavior Analysis: What Is It and How
 Does It Work? 1
2.  Designing Effective Strategies of Change: Essential Building Blocks   21
3.  Preparing an Environment Supportive of Behavior Change   34
4.  Sharpening the Focus by Refining Goals and Objectives    54
5.  Reinforcement: Fueling Behavior Change   80
6.  Increasing Behavior by Developing and Selecting Powerful Reinforcers   98
7.  Organizing for Behavior Change by Collecting Useful Data   119
8.  Optimizing Client Progress by Monitoring Behavior Change: Recording, Graphing,
 and Analyzing Patterns of Change    146
9.  Optimizing Client Progress by Analyzing the Functions of Our Interventions:
 Basic Experimental Designs   170
10.  Setting a Foundation for Positive Change: Identifying Participant’s Functional
 Reinforcers   196
11.  Rapidly Attaining Positive Change: Implementing Reinforcement Effectively   222
12.  Promoting and Supporting Group Change: Programs and Packages    247
13.  Teaching New Behavior: Shaping   271
14.  Teaching Complex Behaviors: Chaining, Task Analyses, and Social Skills Training    293
15.  Attaining Complex Behavior by Promoting and Supporting Antecedent Control   325
16.  Selecting and Applying Methods for Promoting Stimulus Control   343
17.  Achieving Stimulus Control    360
18.  Prompting Procedures and Instructional Programs   383
19.  Teaching, Expanding and Refining Verbal Behavior    409
20.  Promoting Independence: Shifting and Expanding Stimulus Control   437
21.  Generalization: Expanding Stimulus Control   457
22.  Maintaining Behavior: Ratio and Related Schedules of Reinforcement   484
23.  Maintaining Behavior by Arranging Time Based Schedules of Reinforcement   502
24. Organizational Performance Management Systems: Supervising and Supporting Contingency Managers 527
25.  Identifying Effective Interventions with Complex Research Designs   556
26.  An Introduction to Preventing and/or Reducing Contextually Inappropriate Behavior    585
27.  Preventing Unwanted Behavior: Antecedent Methods    591
28.  Reducing Unwanted Behavior: Extinction   617
29.  Constructively Preventing and Reducing Behavior: Differential Reinforcement 
Procedures   631
30.  Reducing Behavior with Negative Punishment: Response Cost and Timeout   657
31.  Reducing Behavior with Positive Punishment while Minimizing Coercion   683
32.  Achieving Lasting Change Responsibly   723
Appendix 1: BACB 5th Edition Task List with References to Text Pages   743
Appendix 2: BACB 4th Edition Task List with References to Text Pages   751
Glossary   761
References   789
Name Index   865
Subject Index   885
 
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