User:Jrhowe12/sandbox

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What the Wikipedia article said about Applied Behavior Analysis: Effective: ABA must be effective, which means that the application of these techniques changes the behavior it seeks to change. Specifically, it is not a theoretical importance of the variable, but rather the practical importance (social importance) that is essential.[18] This is because the Skinnerian behaviorial control assumes no behavior outside stimulus/response, and models none, here only the resultant behavior and not necessarily any underlying cause is modifiable. Then "effective" in ABA means immediately and that the practitioner's stimulus sees a behavioral change, here toward the desired behavior. All stimuli have effect, some negligible. A collection of stimuli might be effective where single stimuli aren't.

What I'm changing with this section of wikipedia: If the application of behavioral techniques does not produce a large enough effects for practical value, then the application has failed. Also, in evaluating whether the application produced enough behavior change, this question can be asked; how much of that behavior needed to be changed?

Baer, D. M., Wolf, M. M., & Risley, T. R. (1968). Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis. Journal of applied behavior analysis, 1(1), 91-97. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1310980/pdf/jaba00083-0089.pdf