Extinction of operant behavior, which involves terminating the reinforcement contingency
that maintains a response, is important to the development, generalization, and reduction of …

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How to Do It is a comprehensive, practical presentation
of the principles of behavior modification and guidelines for their application. Appropriate for …

Continuing the tradition of excellence established in previous editions, distinguished
researcher, practitioner, and educator Alan Kazdin integrates pioneering and recent …

Clinical science has benefited tremendously from taking seriously the proposition that
putatively maladaptive behaviors serve psychological functions, prominently among these …

In recounting his early research agenda, Skinner (1956) described the serendipitous event
that led to the discovery of operant extinction curves. The pellet dispenser on his apparatus …

Procedural extinction is sometimes associated with a temporary increase in responding
known as an extinction burst. Extinction bursts present unique challenges in the context of …

Defining self-injurious behavior (SIB) presents some difficulties. It has been broadly
described as behavior that produces injury to the individual's own body (Tate & Baroff …

Reinforcers lose their effectiveness when they are presented repeatedly. Traditionally, this
loss of effectiveness has been labeled satiation. However, recent evidence suggests that …

The publication of the now classic article on generalization,“An Implicit Technology of
Generalization”(Stokes & Baer, 1977), spurred interest in generalization as an active …

Although the influence of reinforcement history is a theoretical focus of behavior analysis,
the specific behavioral effects of reinforcement history have received relatively little attention …