Applied Behavior Analysis - Three Part Series

Applied behavior analysis is a 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 variables responsible for behavior change. In this webinar, participants will learn what applied behavior analysis is, how ABA single subject design differs from the group design of psychology and veterinary research, and how these three disciplines complement each other.

Participants will come away with an understanding of the history and development of applied behavior analysis, the different types of behaviorism and their philosophical underpinnings, the difference between the psychology model, medical model, and applied behavior analysis model, and a new way of looking at and analyzing behavior.

Don’t you wish the quadrants were easier to understand and apply within the context of modern day training and behavior modification? Well they can be but we first have to forget everything we thought we knew and forget how we were taught… join us to discover a new up to date interdisciplinary approach. This interactive lecture will turn your understanding upside down and then right-side up again. If you are confused about the quadrants or want to understand why behavior happens, you won’t want to miss this.

The way the four quadrants are traditionally taught creates immediate confusion and sets the learner up for misunderstandings as they learn advanced concepts and begin to apply their new knowledge. This webinar approaches the topic differently and instead teaches the four basic contingencies; reinforcement, escape, punishment, and penalty and the four functions of behavior; attention, access, escape, and sensory.

Interspersed throughout lecture material, participants will play an interactive quiz game with the presenter in order to hone their skills and gain true mastery of the concepts. Through this process participants will learn to look at units of behavior and identify the controlling function of that behavior.

This lecture builds on the last. In the final section of this three part series, we’ll move from the smallest unit of behavior analysis to what behavior looks like in real life. Advanced concepts will expand on existing knowledge to allow participants to think not only about simple training paradigms but also advance behavior intervention.

Participants will be introduced to complex contingencies (avoidance of an aversive, avoidance of loss, cued avoidance, continuous-response avoidance, non-cued avoidance, avoidance of an aversive condition, avoidance of loss of a reinforcer, punishment by prevention-of-removal, and punishment by prevention-of-a-reinforcer), concurrent contingencies, the sick social cycle, functional assessment, the constructional approach, and the overlap between applied behavior analysis and welfare science.

We’ll also expand upon where the veterinary team fits into this model and how veterinarians can help alter establishing operations so the pet can learn new skills.

Interspersed throughout lecture material, participants will play an interactive quiz game with the presenter in order to hone their skills and gain true mastery of the concepts. Through this process participants will learn to look at larger units of behavior and identify the multiple controlling functions of that behavior or group of behaviors.