Hardware, software, and other downloadable applications for use on computers, smartphones, or tablets used for advancing learning and/or assisting in behavior change.
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Applied Behavior Analysis as a Teaching Technology
Amoy Kito Hugh-Pennie (Hong Kong Association for Behavior Analysis, China), Hye-Suk Lee Park (KAVBA ABA Research Center, South Korea), Nicole Luke (Brock University, Canada), and Gabrielle T. Lee (Michigan State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 33
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2838-8.ch015
Abstract
Applied behavior analysis is known as an effective way to address the needs of people with autism spectrum disorders. The layperson may also associate behavior analysis with forensic psychology through their experience of crime dramas such as Criminal Minds: Behavior Analysis Unit. However accurate or simplified these portrayals they are a very narrow view of the larger field of behavioral science. Behavior analysis has a host of applications in the real world. Some of these applications include but are certainly not limited to the determination of social policies, advertising, policing, animal training, business practices, diet and exercise regimens and education. In this chapter the authors will focus on how applied behavior analysis can be used as a teaching technology from the behavioral and educational literature that has the potential to help lead the way out of the educational crisis faced in the United States of America and abroad.