Specific Procedures and Populations in Behavior Analysis

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This course will address specific procedures in behavior analysis including respondent conditioning, operant contingencies, stimulus control and generalization, designing instructional programming for early reading skills, teaching verbal behavior, and interventions for increasing desirable behavior and decreasing problem behavior. Additionally, subspecialties such as behavioral approaches to education, treatment of autism, teaching safety skills, pediatrics, treatment of drug addiction, and gerontology will be addressed. Finally, this course will address specific behavior change procedures such as matching to sample procedures, errorless learning procedures, and pairing procedures.