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Forms of ABA

What is Behavior Analysis?

“Applied behavior analysis employs methods based on scientific principles of behavior to build socially useful repertories and reduce problematic ones” (Cooper, Heron, and Howard, 1989) Behavior analysis focuses on the fact that behaviors are learned through interaction and feedback from the environment.  Behavior analysts study the reasons why behaviors occur, using direct observation and experimentation.  The study of the science of b