Manifesto for applied behavior analysis

Manifesto for applied behavior analysis

1. Watson

   • Obtain an exact knowledge of the adaptations and the stimuli that cause them
   • Used prediction and control to understand the behavior of birds in their natural habitats
   • Prediction and experimental control
   • The label applied is not determined by the research procedures used, but by the interest that society shows in the problems studied
   • Applied Behavior Analysis
   • Psychol-ogy as the Behaviorist Views It
     • Applied behavior analysis as a means to explore historical foundations
       • conceptual systems, behavioral, analytical and applied dimensions
   • Behavior modification, not applied research
   • "An experimenter has achieved an analysis of behavior when he can exercise control over it" P. Watson
   • Elaborado por: Sharom Amortegui Grupo: 102054_25 Psicología Organizacional UNAD

2. Behavioral psychologies

   • Betermine the behavior of human beings from observation

3. Experimental psychology

   • Social importance of the behavioral relationships they discovered

4. Behavioral applications of social and individual importance

5. Objectivity, experimentation and applied re-investigation

   • prediction and control as ends, not means

6. Psychology is an objective and experimental branch of natural science

7. Socially important behavior