Behavior analysis

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The behavioral analysis is an empirically -working science that deals with the behavior concerned of humans and animals. Behavior is understood to mean both open (externally, ie, by others) observable and covert (private) behavior (which only the person who is behaving can observe himself). The behavior analysis therefore also understands linguistic behavior (cf. Verbal Behavior ) and internal processes such as thinking and feeling as behavior. Behavioral analysis tries to describe, explain, understand and predict this behavior. The epistemological basis of behavior analysis is radical behaviorism according to B. F. Skinner .

methodology

According to Paul Chance (1998), behavior analysis is the investigation of the functional relationships between behavior and environmental events:

  • Behavior is everything that a person or animal does and that can be observed (by other people or only by this person himself).
  • An environmental event is any event in the environment of an organism that can be observed.
  • A functional relation is the tendency of an event to vary in a regular manner with one or more other events.

The basic science that deals with discovering and describing the laws of behavior is experimental behavior analysis .

Applied behavior analysis seeks to change the behavior of humans or animals by changing the previous conditions and subsequent consequences of the behavior. Well-known applications of behavior analysis are:

Behavioral analysis is taught as a standalone science at several US and international universities. There are now more than a dozen magazines with peer review , the only report on the behavioral analysis. Awareness of behavior analysis among psychologists is limited and, as a result, its perception is often distorted.

See also

literature

Introductory textbooks:

  • Christoph Bördlein: Introduction to behavior analysis . Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2016.
  • Paul Chance: First Course in Applied Behavior Analysis . Brooks / Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove 1998.
  • John O. Cooper, Timothy E. Heron, William L. Heward: Applied Behavior Analysis . Pearson, 2007.
  • Richard W. Malott: Principles of Behavior . Pearson, 2007.
  • L. Keith Miller: Principles of Everyday Behavior Analysis . Brooks / Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregory J. Madden: APA handbook of behavior analysis . American Psychological Association, Washington, DC 2012, ISBN 978-1-4338-1111-1 .
  2. ^ Matthew P. Normand: Science, skepticism, and applied behavior analysis . In: Behavior Analysis in Practice . tape 1 , no. 2 , 2008, ISSN  1998-1929 , p. 42-49 , PMC 2846586 (free full text).
  3. ^ Howard Sloane: What is Behavior Analysis? In: bsotr.com , access on May 21 of 2019.
  4. ↑ Donald M. Baer, ​​Montrose M. Wolf, Todd R. Risley: Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis . In: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis . tape 1 , no. 1 , 1968, ISSN  1938-3703 , pp. 91-97 , doi : 10.1901 / jaba.1968.1-91 , PMC 1310980 (free full text).
  5. ↑ A list of the accredited programs can be found on the website of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABA-I) , Internet resource, accessed July 14, 2013.
  6. ↑ A constantly updated list can be found on this page of Spalding University , Internet resource, accessed on August 28, 2014.
  7. ^ Daniel B. Shabani, James E. Carr, Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir, Barbara Esch, Jill N. Gillet: Scholarly productivity in behavior analysis. The most prolific authors and institutions from 1992 to 2001 . In: The Behavior Analyst Today . tape 5 , no. 3 , 2004, ISSN  1539-4352 , p. 235–243 ( PDF of the journal, 559 kB [accessed on October 14, 2014]).
  8. ↑ James E. Carr, Lisa N. Britton: Citation trends of applied journals in behavioral psychology: 1981-2000 . In: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis . tape 36 , no. 1 , 2003, ISSN  1938-3703 , p. 113–117 , doi : 10.1901 / jaba.2003.36-113 , PMC 1284424 (free full text).
  9. ^ "Often viewed as outdated and insignificant by mainstream psychologist" says Alan Poling: Looking to the future: Will behavior analysis survive and prosper? In: The Behavior Analyst . tape 33 , no. 1 , 2010, ISSN  0738-6729 , p. 7-17 , PMC 2867507 (free full text).
  10. ↑ as a study from Norway showed: Erik Arntzen, Jon Lokke, Gunn Lokke, Dag-Erik Eilertsen: On misconceptions about behavior analysis among university students and teachers . In: The Psychological Record . tape 60 , no. 2 , 2010, ISSN  0033-2933 , p. 325–336 ( PDF 214 kB [accessed October 14, 2014]).