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 …

This chapter takes as its starting point the analysis of verbal stimulation and rule-
understanding presented in the previous chapter. We consider two topics. First, given that …

Contingency-shaped behavior is behavior directly controlled by the relations between
responses and their consequences. But behavior may also come under the control of …

Procedural fidelity is the extent to which components of an intervention are implemented as
designed. Procedural fidelity is measured as a dependent variable and manipulated as an …

In rule‐governed behavior, previously established elementary discriminations are combined
in complex instructions and thus result in complex behavior. Discriminative combining and …

The purpose of this study was to examine the transfer of consequential (reinforcement and
punishment) functions through equivalence relations. In Experiment 1, 9 subjects acquired …

The viability of research paradigms is not decided on entirely rational grounds. The history of
science is littered with approaches that died not as a result of their intellectual inadequacy …

Two experiments examined the relation between response variability and sensitivity to
changes in reinforcement contingencies. In Experiment 1, two groups of college students …

Abstract" Analyzing Social Behavior"... provides the first full coverage of the social sciences
from the perspective of modern behavior analysis. The book provides an up-to-date …

The field of behavior analysis, 1 committed to a basic science of human behavior, has never
had an easy time of it. Two different but related criticisms have plagued the field. First, it has …