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Behavior modification : principles and procedures

By: Publisher: Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, 2016Edition: 6th edDescription: xxii, 566p. : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781305109391 (paperback) :
Other title:
  • Behaviour modification
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WM 425.
Contents:
Introduction to behavior modification -- Part 1. Measurement of behavior and behavior change. Observing and recording behavior -- Graphing behavior and measuring change -- -- Part 2. Basic principles. Reinforcement -- Extinction -- Punishment -- Stimulus control: discrimination and generalization -- Respondent conditioning -- -- Part 3. Procedures to establish new behavior. Shaping -- Prompting and transfer of stimulus control -- Chaining -- Behavioral skills training procedures -- -- Part 4. Procedures to increase desirable behavior and decrease undesirable behavior. Understanding problem behaviors through functional assessment -- Applying extinction -- Differential reinforcement -- Antecedent control procedures -- Using punishment: time-out and response cost -- Positive punishment procedures and the ethics of punishment -- Promoting generalization -- -- Part 5. Other behavior change procedures. Self-management -- Habit reversal procedures -- The token economy -- Behavioral contracts -- Fear and anxiety reduction procedures -- Cognitive behavior modification.
Summary: BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES, Sixth Edition, uses a precise, step-by-step, scientific approach to explain human behavior. Case studies and examples illustrate key principles.
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Book Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves WM 425 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 17620

Previous edition: Belmont, California: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to behavior modification -- Part 1. Measurement of behavior and behavior change. Observing and recording behavior -- Graphing behavior and measuring change -- -- Part 2. Basic principles. Reinforcement -- Extinction -- Punishment -- Stimulus control: discrimination and generalization -- Respondent conditioning -- -- Part 3. Procedures to establish new behavior. Shaping -- Prompting and transfer of stimulus control -- Chaining -- Behavioral skills training procedures -- -- Part 4. Procedures to increase desirable behavior and decrease undesirable behavior. Understanding problem behaviors through functional assessment -- Applying extinction -- Differential reinforcement -- Antecedent control procedures -- Using punishment: time-out and response cost -- Positive punishment procedures and the ethics of punishment -- Promoting generalization -- -- Part 5. Other behavior change procedures. Self-management -- Habit reversal procedures -- The token economy -- Behavioral contracts -- Fear and anxiety reduction procedures -- Cognitive behavior modification.

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES, Sixth Edition, uses a precise, step-by-step, scientific approach to explain human behavior. Case studies and examples illustrate key principles.

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