Concepts and Principles in Behavior Analysis

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In this course, students will develop competence in the technical terminology on the basic concepts and principles of behavior analysis. Topics will include identifying and distinguishing stimulus and stimulus class, identifying and distinguishing positive and negative punishment and automatic and socially-mediated contingencies, and identifying and distinguishing unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized reinforcers and punishers. Additional topics will include basic and compound schedules of reinforcement, extinction, stimulus control and discrimination, generalization, maintenance, motivating operations, behavioral momentum, the matching law, imitation, and observational learning. This course covers Domain B 2, B 5-17, and B 22-24 of the BACB Sixth Edition Test Content Outline (TCO) and meets the requirement that 45 contact hours on these topics are covered within a freestanding course. Share this Page Facebook this Page (opens a new window) Tweet this Page (opens a new window) Print (opens a new window) Help (opens a new window)