IVc709 Concepts and Principles of Behaviour Analysis

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/3.7. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Kateřina Chrapková (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Maštenová (lecturer)
Mgr. Ivana Trellová (lecturer)
Bc. Matúš Mader (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pančocha, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Lenka Gajzlerová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course aims to acquaint students with basic ideas, concepts, and principles of behavioral analysis. Students will learn to actively work with concepts such as 3-term contingency, reinforcement, extinction, punishment, stimulus control, shaping, chaining, motivating operations, verbal behavior, etc.
The course presents the history and development of behavioral theories and develops theoretical and conceptual understanding of the discipline applied behavioral analysis. It deals with the history of a respondent and operant conditioning, mutual conditionality of individual behaviors and their succession. It presents principles of task analysis and analysis of mutual relationships between antecedents, behaviors, and their consequences (so-called A-B-C analysis). Furthermore, the course introduces the principles of shaping and chaining behavior, basic approaches to increasing or decreasing the appearance of specific behavior, and the basics of development of verbal expression.
Learning outcomes
The student can define advanced characteristics of behavioral analysis and describe the history and development of behavioral theories. The graduate is well versed in the advanced terminology of applied behavioral analysis. Can describe and classify the behavioral analyst and his assistant in behavioral analytical intervention and understand the different roles of each behavioral analytical profession within the health system. The graduate can describe and explain the principles of learning and behavior according to behavioral science and to understand functional relationships between antecedents, behavior, and behavioral consequences (ABC model). The graduate knows and practically uses the techniques of social communication training according to the analysis of verbal behavior.
Syllabus
  • Review syllabus and expectations, behaviour analysis - defining characteristics, the structure of JABA articles
  • Respondent conditioning model, behaviour, response classes, stimulus and stimulus classes, operant conditioning model (3-term contingency), operant-respondent interactions
  • Mentalism, private events
  • Theoretical, basic and applied behaviour analysis
  • Reinforcement
  • Extinction, side effects of extinction, spontaneous recovery
  • Punishment
  • Stimulus control, stimulus discrimination and generalisation, response and stimulus prompts
  • Shaping
  • Chaining, task analysis
  • Motivating operations
  • Verbal behaviour
  • Functional relations, contingency shaped behaviour, rule-governed behaviour
  • Stimulus equivalence
  • Behaviour contingencies and contiguity, behavioural contrast
Literature
    required literature
  • COOPER, John O., Timothy E. HERON and William L. HEWARD. Applied behavior analysis. Second edition. Harlow: Pearson, 2014, iv, 751. ISBN 9781292023212. info
Teaching methods
seminar, discussion
Assessment methods
written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 45 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
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