welcome to behaviorguy.com! What is Applied Behavior Analysis? Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a branch of psychology that effects socially significant behavior change; that is to say that behavior analysts deal with behaviors that are of concern to the individual or his community. Applied Behavior Analysis is a science, and utilizes data collection and scientific analysis to determine treatment design and efficacy. For more information, click here What are the applications of ABA? Because ABA is based on the scientific understanding of human behavior, ABA is applicable anywhere people are doing things! Why "behavior guy"? Although I prefer the title "behavior analyst", after years of being introduced as "the behavior guy" by parents, teachers, and staff -- I decided to go with it!
The iPad as RTI Intervention Toolkit While waiting for the iPad to arrive in my reading intervention classroom, I’ve had a lot of time to think and plan how I will use the device. Ground Rules I don’t want hundreds of apps. I’m looking for a few favorites. I don’t want more drill and kill. I want the iPad to help me run my intervention program like a gifted enrichment program, providing the spark that interests students in learning and helps them apply skills that they should not be learning in isolation. My Favorites and How I Will Use Them Dragon Dictation While the iPhone 4S eliminates the need for Dragon Dictation because it integrates dictation whenever the keyboard appears, the iPad becomes magical with the addition of the free Dragon Dictation app. This is of great use for students for whom the process of writing or typing is too much of a chore to allow for the creative expression of their ideas and those whose spelling gets in the way of their completing sentences. iMovie Students can create movies about anything. Pages
DBA-SIG Homepage - Dissemination of Behavior Analysis Task Analysis & Chaining - Kansas City Behavior Analysts Sometimes entire task presentation is overwhelming. Think of preparing a 5 course meal for a crowd of 200, building a car engine or completing a physics problem. Yikes! If we break down the entire skill into tiny, more manageable parts, it makes the entire task feel less taxing on us all. Oftentimes, our kids also feel overwhelmed completing tasks that feel extreme to them, too. Task Analysis = a list of written out steps that contain all of the components necessary to complete the task. When writing a task analysis, we try to break the skill down into very specific steps, to create manageable steps. Chaining = a set of teaching procedures used to teach a task analysis. When using chaining, we teach skills in 1 of 3 ways until the entire sequence of a task analysis is mastered. Forward chaining: Using this type of teaching procedure, the first step is taught first, and then the second step, the third step and continues until the entire sequence is able to be performed independently.
Executive Order -- Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights -- research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them -- can be used to design government policies to better serve the American people. Where Federal policies have been designed to reflect behavioral science insights, they have substantially improved outcomes for the individuals, families, communities, and businesses those policies serve. For example, automatic enrollment and automatic escalation in retirement savings plans have made it easier to save for the future, and have helped Americans accumulate billions of dollars in additional retirement savings. NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, I hereby direct the following: Section 1. (a) Executive departments and agencies (agencies) are encouraged to: Sec. 2. Sec. 3.
Kids Get Control Over Bedtime With The Bedtime Pass When I first heard about the New York Times bestseller called Go The F— to Sleep, my only wish was that I had written it, because I sure thought it a thousand times when my kids were little. And clearly, so have millions of other parents who face that time of day with equal parts dread and exhaustion: bedtime. But there is hope — and it comes in the form of a solution that is so simple, and thus far so successful, you will be smacking your forehead wondering, "Why didn't I think of that?" It's called "the bedtime pass," and it works like this: Every night, parents give their child a five-by-seven card that is the bedtime pass. That's it. "It really is that simple," says Connie Schnoes, director of National Behavioral Health Dissemination at the Boys Town Center for Behavioral Health in Boys Town, Neb. Preferably without having to resort to profanity. Schnoes conducted the original study on the bedtime pass as part of her PhD research.
Do you really understand selection by consequences? | Behavioral Science in the 21st Century By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org B. In other words, Skinner thought of those behaviors which are reinforced and recur more often in the future to be “selected” by those consequences. However, Skinner also talked of a third type of selection — cultural selection. Secondly, cultural selection is based on group consequences, rather than consequences for the individual. In Science and Human Behavior, he talks about “controlling agencies” as groups that control other groups. The applicability of Skinner’s analysis to non agency-mediated practices are a bit unclear, however. Talking About Behavior
Instruction in Functional Assessment | Open SUNY Textbooks Chapter 1: Challenging Behaviors of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities This chapter briefly describes the characteristics of individuals with developmental disabilities and the challenging behaviors frequently displayed by this population. Research on the behavioral principles that have been shown to account for the occurrence of challenging behaviors is summarized. The risk factors contributing to individuals’ challenging behaviors and the context in which they occur are explored to lay the groundwork for the need for effective assessment and treatment methods. Chapter 2: The Methodology of Functional Assessment: Process and Products This chapter defines functional assessment and describes why this approach is useful. Chapter 3: Treatment Implications Based on the Functional Assessment Consideration is given to the relevant factors involved in making treatment selections based on current research and function of the individual’s challenging behaviors.
Behaviorism | GSI Teaching & Resource Center Behaviorist teaching methods have proven most successful in areas where there is a “correct” response or easily memorized material. BackgroundView of KnowledgeView of LearningView of MotivationImplications for Teaching Background Methodological behaviorism began as a reaction against the introspective psychology that dominated the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The mentalistic problem can be avoided by going directly to the prior physical causes while bypassing intermediate feelings or states of mind. Radical behaviorists such as Skinner also made the ontological claim that facts about mental states are reducible to facts about behavioral dispositions. View of Knowledge Behaviorists such as Watson and Skinner construe knowledge as a repertoire of behaviors. View of Learning From a behaviorist perspective, the transmission of information from teacher to learner is essentially the transmission of the response appropriate to a certain stimulus. View of Motivation Implications for Teaching
What Is Behaviorism? How It Works and How It Influenced Psychology Question: What Is Behaviorism? Behaviorism can perhaps be best summed up by the following quote from the famous psychologist John B. Watson: "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors." --John Watson, Behaviorism, 1930 What exactly did Watson mean? Answer: The term behaviorism refers to the school of psychology founded by John B. Behaviorism, also known as behavioral psychology, is a theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning. According to this school of thought, behavior can be studied in a systematic and observable manner with no consideration of internal mental states. There are two major types of conditioning: