Principles of Behavior

"As always, Malott's tone and writing style is very engaging. The storytelling examples are always very good for flushing out difficult concepts. My students love this text in general because of his unique approach." - Lawrence Venuk, Naugatuck Valley Community College

"It is by far the most user friendly text on this topic I have seen. It introduces new material in a understandable, gradual manner [with] Realistic case studies." - Sherman Sowby , Brigham Young University

"Outstanding mastery and competence of every level of behavior analysis, from experimental, to applied, to theoretical. Dick Malott is the heir apparent to B. F. Skinner today." - David Feeney, Strayer University

Richard Malott, PhD, BCBA-D, has been teaching behavior analysis for 50 years, 3 at Denison University and now 47 at Western Michigan University, working with BA, MA, and PhD students. Originally, he taught an intro behavior-analysis course to 1000 students per semester, who produced 1000 lever-pressing rats per year. Now, his students only condition 230 rats per year, but they also do 130 self-management projects and provide 13,500 hours of training to autistic children each year. Malott's published research includes basic experimental work on schedules of reinforcement and stimulus control, and applied work on university instruction, organizational behavior management, self-management, and autism. In 1974, Malott co-founded the Midwestern Association for Behavior Analysis, which evolved into the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI). He has presented in 14 countries and has received two Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards. In 2002, he also received the Award for Public Service in Behavior Analysis from ABAI). In 2009, he was elected to become a Fellow of ABAI. And in 2011-2012, he served as president of ABAI. In 2012, he also received a Distinguished Teaching Award from Western Michigan University. For more information, please see http://DickMalott.com.

Table of Contents

In this Section:

1. Brief Table of Contents

2. Full Table of Contents

Brief Table of Contents

Basic Behavioral Contingencies

Chapter 1:      The Reinforcer (Positive Reinforcer)

Chapter 2:      Reinforcement (Positive Reinforcement)

Chapter 3:      Escape (Negative Reinforcement)  

Chapter 4:      Punishment (Positive Punishment)  

Chapter 5:      Penalty (Negative Punishment)  

Chapter 6:   Extinction (Following Reinforcement) and Recovery (Following Punishment)  

Chapter 7:      Differential Reinforcement and Differential Punishment

Chapter 8:   Shaping

Motivation

Chapter 9:   Unlearned  Reinforcers, Unlearned Aversive Stimuli, (Unconditioned Reinforcers, Unconditioned Punishers) and the Motivating Operation

Chapter 10:       Special Motivating Operations

Chapter 11:    Learned Reinforcers and Learned Aversive Stimuli (Conditioned Reinforcers and Conditioned Punishers)

Stimulus Control

Chapter 12:      Discrimination

Chapter 13:    Complex Stimulus Control

Chapter 14:    Imitation

Complex Behavioral Contingencies

Chapter 15:    Avoidance 

Chapter 16:    Punishment by Prevention (Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior-- DRO)

Chapter 17:    Ratio Schedules

Chapter 18:    Interval Schedules

Chapter 19:    Concurrent Contingencies

Chapter 20:    Behavioral Chains and Differential Reinforcement of Low Rate

Respondent Conditioning

Chapter 22:    Rule-Governed Behavior: Concepts  

Chapter 23:    Rule-Governed Behavior: Applications   

Chapter 24:    Rule-Governed Behavior: Theory

Chapter 25:    Pay for Performance

Chapter 26A:    Sexuality (now on DickMalott.com)  

Chapter 26B:    Moral and Legal Control (now on DickMalott.com)  

Behavioral Stability Across Time and Space 

Chapter 27:  &n...