The seven dimensions of ABA identified in the Baer et al.’s 1968 article, “Some Current Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis,” are the guiding principles for the field of ABA.
Baer et al. (1968) defined the essential characteristics of ABA as follows:
Applied: The behavior analyst examines how an individual’s socially significant behavior will change and affect the individual, as well as those who are close to the individual.
Behavioral: The behavior analyst carefully measures how the individual’s behavior changes, not perceptions about the behavior, or the behavior of other persons.
Analytic: Behavior can be changed by modifying the environmental variables that precede and follow the behavior. Behavior analysts study and practice precise control over these variables to improve behavior.
Technological: Any researcher should be able to read a description of a behavior analyst’s study or intervention and replicate it.
Conceptually systematic: The behavior analyst develops interventions that are consistent with the concepts and principles of ABA.
Effective: ABA interventions must cause meaningful change in the behavior of concern.
General: Behavior change must be long lasting and transferred to other environments and should cause change in other behaviors not being treated by the intervention.
Reference
Baer, D. M., Wolf, M. M., & Risley, T. R. (1968). Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1(1), 91–97.
Instruction: Identify which of the articles is behavior analytic and which is not, and provide an explanation for your choice.
1)Be sure to identify which of the seven dimensions of ABA are present in the behavior analytic article.
2)Analyze why the other article is not behavior analytic. How do you know the seven dimensions are not present?
Identify which of the articles is behavior analytic and which is not, and provide an explanation for your choice.
For this assignment, refer to the following assigned articles this week:
Petscher, E. S., & Bailey, J. S. (2006). Effects of training, prompting, and self-monitoring on staff behavior in a classroom for students with disabilities. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 39(2), 215–226.
Cipriano, A., Cella, S., & Cotrufo, P. (2017). Nonsuicidal self-injury: A systematic review. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1946.For this assignment, refer to the following assigned articles this week: