Behavior Analytic Concepts & Principles

Catalog description

This course focuses on foundational concepts in the field of behavior analysis and ensure each student is able to both identify and apply various techniques in the field as a behavior analyst. The concepts addressed in this course include, but is not limited to the following: philosophical underpinnings of the field; operant conditioning, reinforcement and punishment; reinforcement schedules; extinction; stimulus control; motivating operations, and rule governed versus contingency shaped behaviors.