Table of Contents

Introduction: The Science of Learning and the Technology of Education. UNIT I: THE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH STRATEGY. 1. Introduction to Everyday Behavior Analysis. 2. Definitions of Everyday Behaviors. 3. Methods for the Observation of Everyday Behaviors. 4. Reliability and Validity of Everyday Observations. 5. Experimental Design for Studying Everyday Behavior. 6. Visual Analysis of Behavioral Experiments. 7. Review of Behavioral Methods. UNIT II: THE REINFORCEMENT CONTROL STRATEGY. 8. Reinforcement of Everyday Behaviors. 9. Extinction of Everyday Behaviors. 10. Differential Reinforcement of Everyday Behaviors. 11. Shaping Everyday Behaviors. 12. Reinforcer Effectiveness. 13. Ratio Schedules. 14. Interval Schedules of Reinforcement. 15. Review of Reinforcement. UNIT III: THE STIMULUS CONTROL STRATEGY. 16. Stimulus Discrimination and Everyday Behavior. 17. Generalization Training of Everyday Behaviors. 18. Programming and Fading. 19. Imitation and Instructions. 20. Conditioned Reinforcers and Everyday Situations. 21. Review of Stimulus Control. UNIT IV: THE AVERSIVE CONTROL STRATEGY. 22. Punishment by Contingent Stimulation. 23. Punishment by Contingent Withdrawal. 24. Negative Reinforcement. 25. Review of Aversive Control.