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Class 6:    Activity #5; Exam #1
BBC #6
                 Gradual Change models continued: 
Behavioral Chaining

                
Decreasing Behavior With Punishment

                
Class 7:    Activity #6
BBC #7
                 
Aversive Control:  Escape & Avoidance Conditioning

                 
Behavioral Transference

                 
Goal-Setting and Behavioral / Instructional Objectives

                 
Capitalizing On Existing Behavioral Control:  Rules & Goals 

                 
Class 8:    Activity #7
BBC #8
                 
Capitalizing On Existing Behavioral Control:
                  Modeling,
                  Guidance, &
                  Situational Inducement

                 
Behavioral Assessment

                 
Dealing With Data:  What to Record & How to Do It

                  Behavioral Assessment Tools: 
BASC-POP

                 
WatchMinder

                 
Intro to Behavioral Statistics:  Measures of Central Tendency

                
                 
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Class 9:    Activity #8
BBC #9       
                 
Multiple Baseline Designs

                 
Functional Behavioral Assessment

               

                 

The EDP 7420 Virtual Notebook
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Class 1:     Syllabus
BBC #1
                  Honor Statement: As of Fall semester 2003, per College of Education
                   policy, this statement must be attached to all exams and assignments
                   submitted by students.

                 
Student Data Sheet

                  
Graph for Progress Monitoring
 

                 APA Sample

                 
Parent Consent for Child Participant

                 
Adult Consent

                 
Child Assent Form

                 Scoring Rubric for Behavior Modification Project

                 Sample of Write-Up for Contemporary Behavioral Research Presentation

                 
Wayne RESA's Guide to Functional Behavioral Assessments
       

                  Writing APA style                

                  
Introduction

                  Fingerprinting form for Practicum in DPS
Class 2:    Activity #1
BBC  #2
                
Historical Contexts of Learning Theories

                
Ethical & Multicultural Sensitivity Considerations of Behaviorism
    

                

               
Class 3:    Activity #2
BBC #3
                 
Activity #1 Answers
  
                
Classical (Respondent) Conditioning

                 
Systematic Desensitization   

                 
Operant Conditioning--Increasing a Behavior Through Reinforcement

                 
Choosing Reinforcement With a Reinforcement Survey

                 
Class 4:    Activity #3
BBC #4   
                
The Interaction of Respondent and Operant Conditioning

                 
Conditioned Reinforcement

                 
Practice Examples
            
                 
Decreasing a Behavior With Extinction

                 
Establishing Persistence Through Schedules of Reinforcement

                 
                 
End of materials for Exam #1
Class 5:    Project proposals due; Activity #4
BBC #5
                 
Decreasing Behavior Through Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates

                 
Stimulus Discrimination Training

                  Gradual Change Models: 
Shaping

                 
Fading
Class 10:   Exam #2
BBC #10
                 
Activity #9
 
                  Behaviorism in the Context of School Psychology:
                  Understanding the
ERM,
                  
MET &
                  
IEPT process,
                  
IEP Instructions,
                  
Annual Goals,
                  
Notice of Meeting,
                  
Transition Plan,    
                  
Transition Instructions,
                 
Manifestation Determination Review
                 Manifestation Determination Review Instructions
                                          
                 Definitions of Common Impairments: 
Cognitive Impairment,
                                                                           
LD (DSM Definition),
                                                                           
LD under IDEA 2004,
                                                                           
ADHD
End of materials for Exam #2. 

Class 11:   Activity #10
BBC #11
                  
Planning, Applying, & Evaluating a Treatment Program

                 
Token Economies

                  
Applying Behavioral Principles To The Classroom

                  School-Wide Positive Behavioral Support

                  
                 
Class 12:    Activity #11
BBC #12      
                   
Applying Behavioral Strategies to Self-Control

                   
Mediators of Learning & Behavior Change:
                    Motivation,
                    Self-Efficacy, 
                    Attribution, &
                    Metacognition

      
Class 13:    Activity #12
BBC #13
                   
Cognitive Behavior Modification

                   
Other Treatment & Intervention Approaches:
                    Flooding,
                    Participant Modeling,
                    Cognitive Rehearsal,
                    Self-Instructional Training,
                    Stress Inoculation Training,
                    Covert Sensitization,
                    Habit Reversal
End of materials for Exam #3.

Class 14:    Activity #13
BBC #14
                   
Different Approaches to Instruction: 
                    Gagne's Behavioral Approach;
                    Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development;
                    Bruner's Discovery Learning;
                    Meaningful Verbal Learning of Ausebel
                   
               
                   

                  


Class 15:   Activity #14

                 Exam #3
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Supplmental Lectures:  

                   
Developmental Influences on Behavior and Learning

                   
Intelligence

                    
Memory