Intervention and Behavior Change

3 Credits

This course teaches the application of behavior analytic principles across varied child, adult, and health contexts. Training is provided for procedures such as reinforcement, punishment, motivating operations, modeling, stimulus control, rules, shaping and chaining. Students explore methods for teaching simple to complex repertoires, using discrete trials, Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior, group contingencies, self-management, and strategies to maintain and generalize behavior. Topics include behavior change applications from a range of subject-matter experts across multiple uses of applied behavior analysis. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Prerequisites: SPED 454