Child Development

This course includes topics of explanations of the adequacy and insufficient of behaviors for teacher role, characteristics of science and applied behavior analysis, defining target behaviors, defining, determining and measuring target behaviors, graphic creation, application reliability and inter-observer reliability, behavioral principles, reinforcement and punishment procedure, features and application steps of the AB design from single subject designs.

Students, - Describe and exemplifly the adequate and insufficient explanations of behavior. - Explain the characteristics of science and applied behavior analysis. - Separate experimental behavior analysis from applied behavior analysis. - Define the target behavior. - Explain the reasons for the target behavior. - Explain the measurement techniques used to identify and record target behaviors. - Record the target behavior and display it on the graph. - Make application reliability and inter-observer reliability calculations. - Exemplifly behavior principles (reinforcement and punishment). - Explain the processes of reinforcement and punishment procedures. - Explain the features and application steps of the AB design from single subject designs.