IVc301 BEHABA-1: Concepts and Principles of Behaviour Analysis

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2018
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)
prof. PhDr. Karel Pančocha, Ph.D., M.Sc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Bc. Kristýna Bělohlávková (assistant)
PhDr. Mgr. et Mgr. Bc. Ivana Jůzová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pančocha, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
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 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.
Syllabus
  • Review syllabus and expectations, behaviour analysis - defining characteristics, 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 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 Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2018, recent)
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