Authors: Garry L. Martin, Joseph Pear
ISBN-13: 9780131942271, ISBN-10: 0131942271
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: 8th Edition
For undergraduate courses in Behavior Modification or Behavior Therapy
This book presents a comprehensive, practical presentation of both the principles of behavior modification and guidelines for their application.
Throughout their separate experiences in teaching behavior modification over the past 39 years, both Garry Martin and Joseph Pear’s goals have remained the same: to teach people about the principles of behavior modification and how to apply them effectively to their everyday concerns – from helping children learn life’s necessary skills to solving some of their own personal behavior problems. Through eight editions their text has remained successful and effective because it addresses the needs of two central audiences: college and university students taking courses in behavior modification and its related areas; and students or practitioners of various helping professions (such as clinical psychology, counseling, medicine, etc.) who are concerned directly with enhancing various forms of behavioral development. Assuming no prior knowledge of behavior modification or psychology, this text facilitates understanding of the principles of behavior modification and helps readers to successfully implement behavior modification programs.
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Areas of application : an overview | 15 |
3 | Getting a behavior to occur more often with positive reinforcement | 29 |
4 | Developing and maintaining behavior with conditioned reinforcement | 51 |
5 | Decreasing a behavior with extinction | 60 |
6 | Developing behavioral persistence through the use of intermittent reinforcement | 75 |
7 | Types of intermittent reinforcement to decrease behavior | 92 |
8 | Doing the right thing at the right time and place : stimulus discrimination and stimulus generalization | 100 |
9 | Developing appropriate behavior with fading | 115 |
10 | Getting a new behavior to occur : an application of shaping | 125 |
11 | Getting a new sequence of behaviors to occur with behavioral chaining | 137 |
12 | Eliminating inappropriate behavior through punishment | 150 |
13 | Establishing a desirable behavior by using escape and avoidance conditioning | 166 |
14 | Procedures based on principles of respondent conditioning | 175 |
15 | Respondent and operant conditioning together | 189 |
16 | Transferring behavior to new settings and making it last : generality of behavior change | 201 |
17 | Capitalizing on existing stimulus control : rules and goals | 215 |
18 | Capitalizing on existing stimulus control : modeling, guidance, and situational inducement | 229 |
19 | Motivation and behavior modification | 242 |
20 | Behavioral assessment : initial considerations | 252 |
21 | Direct behavioral assessment : what to record and how | 268 |
22 | Functional assessment of the causes of problem behavior | 285 |
23 | Doing research in behavior modification | 298 |
24 | Planning, applying, and evaluating a treatment program | 312 |
25 | Token economies | 323 |
26 | Helping an individual to develop self-control | 335 |
27 | Cognitive behavior modification | 356 |
28 | Areas of clinical behavior therapy | 373 |
29 | Giving it all some perspective : a brief history | 388 |
30 | Ethical issues | 401 |