Applied Behavior Analysis: What You Need to Know Today!

Applied Behavior Analysis: What You Need to Know

Today!

Patrick R. Blevins MA, BCBA

University of New Mexico Medical Group prblevins@salud.u nm.ed u

ABA!

A BCBA

Oh snap!

Objectives

? "Briefly" describe the science of behavior analysis and its four domains

? Provide a lay-person definition of Applied Behavior Analysis

? Briefly describe how the science of behavior analysis is applied for individuals with ASD

? Briefly describe qualifications for providing behavior analytic services

? State the three stages of services for NM ABA

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A (not so) Brief History of Behavior Analysis

Beha vi orism

History of Behavior Analysis

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabrics of their life."

(Tols toy, 1894)

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History of Behavior Analysis History of Behavior Analysis History of Behavior Analysis

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History of Behavior Analysis

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History of Behavior Analysis

History of Behavior Analysis

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History of Behavior Analysis

Hint: This will be on the test...

? "The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variable responsible for behavior change."

? "Applied behavior analysis can be fully understood only in the context of the philosophy and basic research traditions and findings from which it evolved and remains connected today."

(Cooper, H eron & H eward pg. 7, 2007)

History of Behavior Analysis

? Six attitudes of science ? Determinism ? Empiricism ? Experimentation ? Replication ? Parsimony ? Philosophic doubt

History of Behavior Analysis

? Six attitudes of science ? Determinism ? the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events ? Empiricism ? Experimentation ? Replication ? Parsimony ? Philosophic doubt

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