Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It

by Garry L. Martin, Joseph J. Pear

Behavior What It Is and How to Do It is a comprehensive, practical presentation of the principles of behavior modification and guidelines for their application. Appropriate for university students and for the general reader, it teaches forms of behavior modification ranging from helping children learn necessary life skills to training pets, to solving personal behavior problems. It teaches practical "how-to" skills, discerning long-term effects; designing, implementing, and evaluating behavioral programs; interpreting behavioral episodes; observing and recording behaviors; and recognizing instances of reinforcement, extinction, and punishment. Behavior Modification is ideal for courses in Behavior Modification, Applied Behavior Analysis, Behavior Therapy, the Psychology of Learning, and related areas; and for students and practitioners of various helping professions (such as clinical psychology, counselling, education, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychiatric nursing, psychiatry, social work, speech therapy, and sport psychology) who are concerned directly with enhancing various forms of behavior development. The material is presented in an interesting, readable format that assumes no prior knowledge of behavior modification or psychology. Specific cases and examples clarify issues and make the principles real. Guidelines throughout provide a ready source to use as a reference in applying the principles.Online resources, including an instructor’s manual, are available at www.routledge.com/9780815366546.

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks, School, Nonfiction, Science

404 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1978

About the author

Dr. Garry Martin is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He received his M.A. and Ph.D degrees from Arizona State University and has taught in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba from the fall of 1966 until his retirement in 2008. He has co-authored or co-edited 8 books. His co-authored books on behavioral psychology are used as primary texts at over 200 universities in several countries, and have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean. His best-selling textbook is Behavior Modification: What it is and How to Do It, co-authored by Dr. Joseph Pear

In 2006 Dr. Garry Martin was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Manitoba, recognizing his “outstanding professional achievement and community service.”

Garry Martin has co-authored more than 150 papers, published in refereed journals, on behavior modification/applied behavior analysis programming and research in developmental disabilities, autism, behavior therapy, organizational behavior management, and sport psychology. He has supervised 39 Masters theses and 35 PhD theses at the University of Manitoba, served as an external PhD thesis examiner for 8 other universities, and served on the editorial board of 7 psychology journals. He has received numerous important awards. In addition to extensive research in developmental disabilities, Garry Martin is an expert in Sport Psychology.

Reviews

[Dana]

One of the only books I kept from my degree coursework in Applied Behavioral Science. It's a great primer on the history and methods of this school of psychology.

[Martin Screeton]

Unless you are interested in childhood behavior... leave this OFF your reading and/or study list. This one is about as exciting as blank paper.

[Nicole]

I can't believe I read this entire book...

[Menoedh]

Bukunya ringan. Untuk orang-orang di luar psikologi bisa cepet paham. Buku ini juga ngga ngomongin dari sisi threapy, hence the name modification.

Banyak contoh-contoh kasus atau aplikasi dunia nyata yang bikin lebih cepat teori-teorinya dipahami. Mungkin yang agak nyusahin adalah, si penulis (atau mungkin aliran behavioris) kebanyakan ngasih istilah untuk suatu fenomena atau tretament

[Kathrynn]

Behavior Modification is one of my favorite subjects. Methods in this book can be used in parenting, animal training, MARRIAGE! etc. One of my favorites and another book I will never part with.

[Steve Albert]

One of the most poorly written and disorganized text books I've ever seen. Lot's of formatting errors and there just isn't any sort of flow.

[Ossy Firstan]

Re-read, pretty good.

[Weytel]

Bom livro para pegar conceitos básicos, mas super desatualizado considerando a prática clínica.