Waubonsee Community College

Behavior modification, what it is and how to do it, Garry Martin, Joseph Pear

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-442) and indexes

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Behavior modification

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Garry Martin, Joseph Pear

what it is and how to do it

1. Introduction -- 2. Areas of Application: An Overview -- 3. Getting a Behavior to Occur More Often With Positive Reinforcement -- 4. Decreasing a Behavior With Extinction -- 5. Getting a New Behavior to Occur: An Application of Shaping -- 6. Developing Behavioral Persistence Through the Use of Intermittent Reinforcement -- 7. Types of Intermittent Reinforcement to Decrease Behavior -- 8. Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time and Place is a Matter for Stimulus Discrimination Training -- 9. Developing Appropriate Behavior With Fading -- 10. Developing and Maintaining Behavior With Conditioned Reinforcement -- 11. Getting a New Behavior to Occur With Behavioral Chaining -- 12. Transferring Behavior to New Settings and Making it Last: Generality of Behavioral Change -- 13. Eliminating Inappropriate Behavior Through Punishment -- 14. Establishing a Desirable Behavior by Using Escape and Avoidance Conditioning -- 15. Procedures Based on Principles of Respondent Conditioning -- 16. Capitalizing on Existing Stimulus Control: Rules and Goals -- 17. Capitalizing on Existing Stimulus Control: Modeling, Guidance, and Situational Inducement -- 18. Behavioral Assessment: Initial Considerations -- 19. Direct Behavioral Assessment: What to Record and How -- 20. Assessing and Treating the Causes of Problem Behavior -- 21. Doing Research in Behavior Modification -- 22. Planning, Applying, and Evaluating a Treatment Program -- 23. Token Economies -- 24. Helping an Individual to Develop Self-Control -- 25. Systematic Self-Desensitization -- 26. Cognitive Behavior Modification -- 27. Areas of Clinical Behavior Therapy -- 28. Giving it All Some Perspective: A Brief History -- 29. Ethical Issues