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Behavior modification : principles and procedures / Raymond G. Miltenberger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Cengage, 2024Edition: Seventh editionDescription: xix, 439 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780357796375
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 153.85  M64b
LOC classification:
  • BF637.B4 .M535 2024
Contents:
Introduction to bahavior 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: "Gain an understanding of human behavior, the factors that influence behavior and the strategies to change behavior with Miltenberger's BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES, 7E. This precise, step-by-step, scientific approach introduces the underlying principles and then the procedures behind behavior modification. Numerous current examples from research, clinical practice and everyday life clearly illustrate key principles. This edition offers new content that explores topics such as verbal behavior and stimulus equivalence. Updated references highlight the latest research and developments from the field, while this edition's new learning objectives direct your attention to key material. You can also use new self-assessment exercises, application and misapplication exercises, practice tests and three practice quizzes at the end of every chapter to ensure your comprehension"-- Amazon's description.
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Previous edition: Belmont, California: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to bahavior 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.

"Gain an understanding of human behavior, the factors that influence behavior and the strategies to change behavior with Miltenberger's BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES, 7E. This precise, step-by-step, scientific approach introduces the underlying principles and then the procedures behind behavior modification. Numerous current examples from research, clinical practice and everyday life clearly illustrate key principles. This edition offers new content that explores topics such as verbal behavior and stimulus equivalence. Updated references highlight the latest research and developments from the field, while this edition's new learning objectives direct your attention to key material. You can also use new self-assessment exercises, application and misapplication exercises, practice tests and three practice quizzes at the end of every chapter to ensure your comprehension"-- Amazon's description.

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