This text uses the principles of behavior modification to teach the procedures of behavior modification, illustrating them with key case studies and examples. Its precise, step-by-step approach includes practical information on the technologies used to measure and record behavior changes. BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES, Sixth Edition, also provides numerous opportunities for students to practice, including practice tests, application and misapplication exercises, and three quizzes at the end of every chapter.

1. Introduction to Behavior Modification.
2. Observing and Recording Behavior.
3. Graphing Behavior and Measuring Change.
4. Reinforcement.
5. Extinction.
6. Punishment.
7. Stimulus Control: Discrimination and Generalization.
8. Respondent Conditioning.
9. Shaping.
10. Prompting and Transfer of Stimulus Control.
11. Chaining.
12. Behavioral Skills Training Procedures.
13. Understanding Problem Behaviors through Functioning Assessments.
14. Applying Extinction.
15. Differential Reinforcement.
16. Antecedent Control Procedures.
17. Using Punishment: Time-out and Response Cost.
18. Positive Punishment Procedures and the Ethics of Punishment.
19. Promoting Generalization.
20. Self-Management.
21. Habit Reversal Procedures.
22. The Token Economy.
23. Behavioral Contracts.
24. Fear and Anxiety Reduction Procedures.
25. Cognitive Behavior Modifications.

This text uses the principles of behavior modification to teach the procedures of behavior modification, illustrating them with key case studies and examples. Its precise, step-by-step approach includes practical information on the technologies used to measure and record behavior changes. BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES, Sixth Edition, also provides numerous opportunities for students to practice, including practice tests, application and misapplication exercises, and three quizzes at the end of every chapter. This edition includes numerous new references, more self-assessment questions, and a number of new terms and their definitions. Chapter 1 discusses professional practice, certification, and ethics, including information on Board Certified Behavior Analysts as the practicing professionals who use the behavior modification procedures presented in the text. This chapter also includes an updated definition of behavior modification and a brief discussion of behaviorism. Ethical principles are discussed in Chapters 1 and 6. The term "motivating operation" was introduced in the last edition. In this edition, more detail is provided on the two types of motivating operations (EOs and AOs) in Chapters 4 and 6 to help students better understand the concept applied to reinforcement and punishment. A table provides a succinct summary. The author provides more detail on how functional relationships between environmental variables and behavior are assessed, including an emphasis on how functional relationships are established in each type of research design (Chapter 3) and on how functional analysis procedures identify functional relationships (Chapter 13). More information on functional analysis in Chapter 13 includes clarification of the distinction between functional assessment and functional analysis and clinical applications of functional analysis methodology. A new figure highlights the difference between interval recording and time sample recording (Chapter 2). New discussions cover the use of technology for behavior recording, including behavior recording apps for smartphones and tablets, accelerometers and GPS enabled devices for recording exercise and physical activity, and web-based programs for recording and self-management (Chapters 2 and 23). This edition includes new information on the effective use of time out, including procedures for increasing compliance with time out. There's also discussion of another strategy for promoting generalization-providing cues for the behavior in the natural environment. The terms "evoke" and "abate" are introduced in the discussion of EOs and AOs (Chapter 4), and "evoke" is covered in the discussion of stimulus control (Chapter 7). The author clarifies the two functions of feedback (Chapter 12), presents the discussion of instructions before the discussion of modeling in behavioral skills training (Chapter 12), and distinguishes between preference assessment and reinforcer assessment (Chapter 15).