Problem: Review the Behavior Analysis | An Overview (Behavior Analyst Certification Board, 2018) video on areas of professional practice in ABA. Then, please form a brief scenario in which you imagine yourself as a behavior analyst who is developing an intervention to help an individual change a socially significant behavior by forming a simple system of reinforcement to increase a desired behavior. For instance, you might develop an intervention where time spent in-seat at school is reinforced with teacher praise or tokens or an intervention to improve productivity in a factory by offering incentives.
Please respond to the following:
Provide a brief description of a simple behavior change intervention. Need Assignment Help?
Describe a simple plan of reinforcement to increase the desired behavior.
Taking into consideration readings throughout the term on goals of science, philosophical assumptions of science, and the seven dimensions of applied behavior analysis, describe how the plan you are proposing is grounded in a scientific foundation.
Finally, describe the scientist-practitioner model and discuss how it will guide your hypothetical intervention.
Use and reference sources below in the prompt.
Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2020). Applied behavior analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson.
Fisher, W. W., Piazza, C. C., & Roane, H. S. (2021). Handbook of applied behavior analysis (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
Skinner, B.F. (1976). About behaviorism. Vintage.
Staddon, J. (2021). The new behaviorism: Foundations of behavioral science. (3rd ed.). Routledge.