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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? There has to be results that show that it is working with the client. How much behavior needs to be changed is based on each individual client and each client is different.

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