Professional practice of behavior analysis

Introduction Behavior is generally both physical and psychological response towards stimuli. It encompasses organism’s observable physical movements and internal psychological process, summing up to how an organism responds with the environment. Sniffy experiment seeks to demonstrate how the virtual rat responds to tone and shock variation. It is possible to measure organism behavior using one or more parameters, including duration, intensity, and frequency. While experimentation is a better…

chocolate at least five out of the seven days of the week; two to three king sizes of any given chocolate candy’s brands per day. This behavioral intention (i.e. attitudes toward the behavior) now turned into a negative health behavior. My excessive consumption of chocolate has become a health compromising behavior (i.e. behaviors that detract from or damage health) since it is now an addictive, habitual and somehow pleasurable activity to me. My high conception of sugar in chocolate could…

Applied Behavior Analysis Final Written Report Off-task behavior is a common concern in classroom. Multiple researches have studied different methods to decrease off-task behaviors. For example, the teachers’ greetings may have be successful antecedent attention; teacher greeting decreased three middle school student’s need to receive attention from the teacher by being off-task. Additionally, the Keep Busy and Carry On (KBCO), a computer-assisted intervention aimed at decreasing transition…

males and 12 females. This study compared two interventions, to evaluate which would have a larger effect on disruptive behavior in children in public schools. The two interventions were, Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). The main difference between these two interventions is, PRT allowed children to choose their rewards based on their behavior. Whereas in ABA, the teachers chose the children’s rewards. The intervention took place during summer school, and…

empathy toward a passing of their own. Rifkin emphasizes this by taking a look at how, “Elephants will often stand next to their dead kin for days, occasionally touching their bodies with their trunks.” Rifkin also mentions, “Studies on pigs’ social behavior funded by McDonald at Purdue University, for example, have found that they crave affection and are easily depressed if isolated or denied playtime with each other.” This tells us animals do feel emotions, showing they have feelings.…

Kyle Horne April 1 2016 1001 Khorne Do Pigeons Already Generalize, or did they Just Want Food? Summary An experiment was performed in order to test role of concept learning in pigeons. This experiment used contextual cueing, a non differential reinforcement procedure that involves low-level supervision, to test concept learning in pigeons, rather than a differential reinforcement procedure, which involves high-level supervision.The experiment involved pigeons pecking at a target stimulus when…

across the seven dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis as described by Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968). The seven dimensions are as follows: analytic, applied, behavioral, conceptually systematic, effective, generality, and technology. Ahearn et al. (2007) examined non-communicative…

After analyzing the data collected over the last two weeks it showed that the intervention being implemented was working. The intervention was effective in decreasing my behavior (consumption of high carbohydrate foods) by utilizing my healthier substitute of fruits, vegetables and salads. The first couple of days of the intervention I felt sluggish and tired. However, the daily exercise did contribute to the effectiveness of the intervention. Additionally, daily exercise gave me more energy and…

abnormal behavior is not due to any psychoanalytical or biological cause, rather they are formed based on a person’s history of conditioning. Through my studies I have found that behaviors that bring about positive consequences have a greater likelihood of being repeated than behaviors that bring about negative consequences. This is known as operant conditioning, the shaping of behaviors by providing rewards to reinforce desired behaviors and providing punishment for undesired behaviors. This…

Thorndike’s law of effect states that rewarded behaviors will be repeated and punished behaviors will decrease. Mrs. Jones can use the law of effect to get her students to behave well. If the students follow directions, she can offer them candy to get them to keep up the behavior. Also, she can punish her students for misbehaving by assigning them to a silent lunch. The candy will give them an incentive to behave properly while the silent lunches will get them to stop misbehaving. Classical…