IVc304 BEHABA-4: Behaviour Change Applications

Faculty of Education
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/0/3.8. 20 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mickey Keenan (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Maštenová (lecturer)
Bc. Matúš Mader (seminar tutor)
prof. PhDr. Karel Pančocha, Ph.D., M.Sc. (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.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the application of behavioral change (in the field of reinforcement, verbal behavior, punishment, extinction and others).
Syllabus
  • Functional assessment 1
  • Funtional analysis 1
  • Reinforcement (applied), schedules of reinforcement (applied)
  • Prompts and prompt fading, modelling and imitation, task analyses (application)
  • Discrete trial training, free operant arrangements
  • Errorless learning procedures, matching to sample
  • Verbal behaviour (application), augmentative communication systems
  • Punishment (applied), schedules of punishment (applied)
  • Extinction (applied), combinations of reinforcement, extinction and punishment
  • Differential reinforcement
  • Antecedent interventions
  • Discrimination training procedures, instructions and rules, contingency contracting
  • Group contingencies
  • Matching law, choice
  • Premack principle, pairing procedures
Literature
    required literature
  • COOPER, John O. Applied Behavior Analysis. Upper Saddle River: Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall, 2007, 770 s. ISBN 9780131293274. info
Teaching methods
seminar, discussion
Assessment methods
written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
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 Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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