Behavioral Analysis of Learning

Code: EES400

Total Credits: 8 credits

Subject Profile: Optional

Syllabus:

  1. Selection by consequences: the evolution of behavior
  2. Experimental behavior analysis: fundamental concepts and research methods
  3. Reinforcement contingencies: basic principles of learning
  4. Procedures to analyze and synthesize behaviors: fundamentals, planning, implementation and evaluation
  5. Behavioral analysis of cognition and symbolic processes
  6. Applications to special education

Main Bibliography:

  1. Catania, A.C. (1999. Aprendizagem: comportamento, cognição e linguagem. Porto Alegre: Artmed.
  2. Ferster, C.B., Culbertson, S., & Perrot, M.C.(1977). Princípios do Comportamento. (Trad. M.I.Rocha e Silva, M.A.C.,Rodrigues, & M.B.L. Pardo). São Paulo: Hucitec.
  3. Hayes, S. C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (2001). Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
  4. Holland, J.G., & Skinner, B.F. (1961). São Paulo: EPU e EDUSP.
  5. Keller, F.S., & Schoenfeld, N. (1950). Principios de análise do comportamento. São Paulo: Herder
  6. Rehfeldt, R. A., & Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2009). Derived relational responding: applications for learners with autism and other developmental disabilities. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
  7. Sidman, M. (1994). Equivalence Relations and Behavior: a Research Story. Boston: Authors Cooperative.
  8. Material specially written for the subject teaching program
  9. Recent articles from relevant journals in the field: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, PsychologicalRecord, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, The Behavior Analyst, Brazilian Journal of Behavior Analysis (among others)