Behavior Modification

6th Edition - Principles and Procedures

By: Raymond Miltenberger

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Paperback | 28 February 2015 | Edition Number 6

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This text uses the principles of behavior modification to teach the procedures of behavior modification, illustrating them with key case studies and examples. Its precise, step-by-step approach includes practical information on the technologies used to measure and record behavior changes.

Behavior Modification: Principles and Procedures, Sixth Edition, also provides numerous opportunities for students to practice, including practice tests, application and misapplication exercises, and three quizzes at the end of every chapter.

What's New

Important information in each chapter is highlighted in a second color or placed in text boxes in order to better draw students' attention. In addition, in-text questions are identified with a question mark icon.
This edition includes numerous new references, more self-assessment questions, and a number of new terms and their definitions.
Chapter 1 discusses professional practice, certification, and ethics, including information on Board Certified Behavior Analysts as the practicing professionals who use the behavior modification procedures presented in the text. This chapter also includes an updated definition of behavior modification and a brief discussion of behaviorism. Ethical principles are discussed in Chapters 1 and 6.
The term "motivating operation" was introduced in the last edition. In this edition, more detail is provided on the two types of motivating operations (EOs and AOs) in Chapters 4 and 6 to help students better understand the concept applied to reinforcement and punishment. A table provides a succinct summary.
The author provides more detail on how functional relationships between environmental variables and behavior are assessed, including an emphasis on how functional relationships are established in each type of research design (Chapter 3) and on how functional analysis procedures identify functional relationships (Chapter 13).

Features

This edition has been updated throughout with recent references.
Quizzes are placed at the end of the book on color-tabbed and perforated pages so that they can easily be removed, completed, and submitted.
The chapters on behavioral principles (Chapters 4–8) and procedures (Chapters 9–25) include a "For Further Reading" feature. Each of these features identifies and briefly describes one or more interesting articles relevant to the chapter content, and provides citations. Instructors can assign these articles for extra credit or when more advanced students are using the textbook.
The text's unique organization is based on the principle that students better understand the procedures of behavior modification after first learning the fundamental principles. Chapters 4–8 review the principles underlying operant and respondent behavior, while Chapters 9–25 discuss the application of these principles.
Miltenberger presents a wide variety of examples using different populations in multiple settings-including college students, school-age children, and people with developmental disabilities-providing a uniquely wide lens through which to consider behavior modification principles.
"Application Exercises" at the end of each procedures chapter (Chapters 2, 3, and 9–25) provide real-life cases followed by questions that ask students to apply the procedures that are described. "Misapplication Exercises" follow each of the "Application Exercises," providing case studies that ask students to analyze what's wrong with the procedure being applied to the case. Answers to both sets of exercises appear in the Instructor's Manual.

About the Author

Raymond G. Miltenberger received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1985 from Western Michigan University. He is currently a professor and director of the Applied Behavior Analysis Program at the University of South Florida. Dr. Miltenberger conducts applied behavior analysis research with his students and publishes widely in the areas of sports and fitness, safety skills training and functional assessment and treatment of behavioral disorders. He is a fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and the American Association for Advancement of Science. Dr. Miltenberger has won numerous awards for teaching, researching and mentoring.

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