Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
An Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) a scientific discipline that applies empirical approaches based on respondent and operant conditioning principles to change behavior of social significance.
- AKA: Behavioral Engineering.
- Context:
- It is a human analysis of human-machine interaction.
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- See: Discrete Trial Training, Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Behavior Modification, Functional Analysis (Psychology), Positive Behavior Support, Behavior Analysis.
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2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis Retrieved:2022-8-29.
- Applied behavior analysis (ABA), also called behavioral engineering,[1] [2] is a scientific discipline that applies empirical approaches based upon the principles of respondent and operant conditioning to change behavior of social significance.[3] [4] It is the applied form of behavior analysis; the other two forms are radical behaviorism (or the philosophy of the science) and the experimental analysis of behavior (or basic experimental research).
The name applied behavior analysis has replaced behavior modification because the latter approach suggested attempting to change behavior without clarifying the relevant behavior-environment interactions. In contrast, ABA changes behavior by first assessing the functional relationship between a targeted behavior and the environment.[5] [6] [7] Further, the approach often seeks to develop socially acceptable alternatives for aberrant behaviors.
Although behavior analysts overwhelmingly specialize in autism treatment,[8] ABA has also been utilized in a range of other areas,[9] including applied animal behavior, schoolwide positive behavior support, classroom instruction, structured and naturalistic early behavioral interventions for autism, pediatric feeding therapy, rehabilitation of brain injury, dementia, fitness training, counseling, substance abuse, phobias, tics, and organizational behavior management. ABA is considered controversial by some within the autism neurodiversity movement[10] due to its history of the use of aversives and a perception that ABA interventions emphasize normalization instead of acceptance.
- Applied behavior analysis (ABA), also called behavioral engineering,[1] [2] is a scientific discipline that applies empirical approaches based upon the principles of respondent and operant conditioning to change behavior of social significance.[3] [4] It is the applied form of behavior analysis; the other two forms are radical behaviorism (or the philosophy of the science) and the experimental analysis of behavior (or basic experimental research).
- ↑ Pierce, W. David; Cheney, Carl D. (16 June 2017) [1995]. Behavior Analysis and Learning: A Biobehavioral Approach (6 ed.). New York: Routledge. pp. 1–622. ISBN 978-1138898585.
- ↑ Ayllon T, Michael J (October 1959). "The psychiatric nurse as a behavioral engineer". Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 2 (4): 323–334. doi:10.1901/jeab.1959.2-323. PMC 1403907. PMID 13795356.
- ↑ Baer, D.M.; Wolf, M.M. & Risley, T.R. (1968). "Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis". Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. 1 (1): 91–97. doi:10.1901/jaba.1968.1-91. PMC 1310980. PMID 16795165.
- ↑ See also footnote number "(1)" of [and the whole "What is ABA?" section of] Where the same definition is given, (or quoted), and it credits (or mentions) both [i] the source "Baer, Wolf & Risley, 1968" (Drs. Donald Baer, PhD, Montrose Wolf, PHD and Todd R. Risley, PhD, (Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Alaska) were psychologists who developed science of applied behavior analysis) and [ii] another source, called "Sulzer-Azaroff & Mayer, 1991". Beth Sulzer-Azaroff is a psychologist at
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Psychology
- ↑ Mace, F.C. (1994). "The significance and future of functional analysis methodologies". Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. 27 (2): 385–392. doi:10.1901/jaba.1994.27-385. PMC 1297814. PMID 16795830.
- ↑ L. Pelios; J. Morren; D. Tesch; S. Axelrod (1999). "The impact of functional analysis methodology on treatment choice for self-injurious and aggressive behavior". Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. 32 (2): 185–195. doi:10.1901/jaba.1999.32-185. PMC 1284177. PMID 10396771.
- ↑ F.C. Mace; T.S. Critchfield (May 2010). "Translational research in behavior analysis: Historical traditions and imperative for the future". Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 93 (3): 293–312. doi:10.1901/jeab.2010.93-293. PMC 2861871. PMID 21119847.
- ↑ "BACB CERTIFICANT DATA". Behavior Analyst Certification Board. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
- ↑ Dillenburger, K.; Keenan, M. (2009). "None of the As in ABA stand for autism: dispelling the myths". J Intellect Dev Disabil. 34 (2): 193–95. doi:10.1080/13668250902845244. PMID 19404840. S2CID 1818966.
- ↑ "Commentary: The autistic community is having a reckoning with ABA therapy. We should listen". Fortune. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_engineering Retrieved:2022-8-29.
- Behavioral engineering, also called applied behavior analysis, is intended to identify issues associated with the interface of technology and the human operators in a system and to generate recommended design practices that consider the strengths and limitations of the human operators.
Watson wrote in 1924 "Behaviorism ... holds that the subject matter of human psychology is the behavior of the human being. Behaviorism claims that consciousness is neither a definite nor a usable concept." [1]
This approach is often used in organizational behavior management, which is behavior analysis applied to organizations and behavioral community psychology.
- Behavioral engineering, also called applied behavior analysis, is intended to identify issues associated with the interface of technology and the human operators in a system and to generate recommended design practices that consider the strengths and limitations of the human operators.
- ↑ Watson, J.B. (1924) Behaviorism