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Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
This course is the first in a sequence of courses for the Applied Behavior Analysis Certificate Program. This course, in combination with the other courses, will provide fundamental knowledge and experiences for understanding Applied Behavior Analysis principles, concepts, and techniques, including observational analysis, data-based instruction, and social validity to increase students' social and task related behavior. Students learn procedures to increase or decrease target behavior, to facilitate behavior maintenance and generalization, and to evaluate effectiveness of instruction. Permission of instructor required.
Learning Outcomes1Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science (i.e., description, prediction, control) (A-1).
2Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism) (A-2).
3Describe and explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism (A-3).
4Distinguish among behaviorism, the experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis (A-4).
5Describe and define the dimensions of applied behavior analysis (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968) (A-5).
6Define and provide examples of behavior, response, and response class (B-1).
7Define and provide examples of stimulus and stimulus class (B-2).
8Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning (B-3).
9Define and provide examples of positive and negative reinforcement contingencies (B-4).
10Define and provide examples of schedules of reinforcement (B-5).
11Define and provide examples of positive and negative punishment contingencies (B-6).
12Define and provide examples of automatic and socially mediated contingencies (B-7).
13Define and provide examples of unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized reinforcers and punishers (B-8).
14Define and provide examples of operant extinction (B-9).
15Define and provide examples of stimulus control (B-10).
16Define and provide examples of discrimination, generalization, and maintenance (B-11).
17Define and provide examples of motivating operations (B-12).
18Define and provide examples of rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior (B-13).
19Define and provide examples of the verbal operants (B-14).
20Define and provide examples of derived stimulus relations (B-15).
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