PED 676 - Intro Applied Behavior Analysis

Institution:

National University

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Description:

Applied Behavior Analysis is a scientific based method of understanding human behavior and using that understanding to change socially significant behaviors. The field is based on over 50 years of scientific research on respondent and operant conditioning and its application to everyday situations. This course provides an overview of the major components - philosophical as well as applied - ofApplied Behavior Analysis. Major topics include behavioral assessment, single-subject research design, basic principles of behavior shaping and reduction, how to achieve behavioral generalization and maintenance, aspects of stimulus control and its relation to the three term contingency model, discrete trial training, and aversive control. This course is not an ABA Certificate course.

Credits:

4.50

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nu.edu

Phone Number:

(800) 628-8648

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Other academic year

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