1st Edition

Environment And Behavior

By Donald M. Baer Copyright 1997
    332 Pages
    by Routledge

    332 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is organized around the clusters of details about how behavior is controlled by its environmental antecedents and about how behavior can control its antecedents. It illustrates how to integrate environmental awareness into professional practice and design.

    Foreword -- Preface -- The Basic Principles -- Understanding Human Behavior: A Key to Solving Social Problems -- Some Meanings of Antecedent and Environmental Control -- The Context of Stimulus Control in Behavior Analysis -- Verbal-Nonverbal Correspondence Training as a Case of Environmental Antecedents -- Managing Simple but Crucial Environmental Antecedents -- Environmental Approaches to the Development of Conceptual Behavior -- Errorless Learning in Educational Environments: Using Criterion–Related Cues to Reduce Errors -- Selective Eye Fixations During Transfer of Discriminative Stimulus Control -- Evaluating the Identity Concept Using Matching-to-Sample Procedures -- Stimulus Classes, Stimulus Sequences, and Generative Behavior -- Use of a Preexisting Verbal Relation to Prevent the Properties of Stimulus Equivalence from Emerging in New Relations -- Clinical Applications, with Emphasis on Substance Abuse and Autism -- Nurturance Traps of Aggression, Depression, and Regression Affecting Childhood Illness -- Behavioral Intervention in Cancer Treatment -- Structure of Victim Engagement in Sexual Abuse -- Stimulus Control of Drug Abuse -- Stimulus Control Processes in Drug Taking: Implications for Treatment -- Caffeine as a Model Drug of Abuse for the Development of Sensitive Behavioral Measures -- The Study of Stimulus Control in Autism -- Overselectivity in the Naming of Suddenly and Gradually Constructed Faces -- The Environmental Antecedents of Spontaneous Social Behavior -- Constructing the Whole Environment -- Environmental Approaches to Mental Retardation -- Ecobehavioral Approaches in Child Abuse and Developmental Disabilities Mirroring Life -- Training Adult-Day-Care Staff -- A Supportive Environment for Old Age -- Make Your Own Environment! -- In Search of Solutions to Prompt Dependence: Teaching Children with Autism to Use Photographic Activity Schedules -- Stimulus Manipulations: Enhancing Materials for Self-Directed Learning -- The Emergence of Combination Therapies Intensifies the Need for Generalization Technologies

    Biography

    Donald M.Baer