Behavior Modification--What It Is and How to Do It (6th Edition)

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Summary: Reveiw on "Behavior Modification, What it is and how to do"
Review: I am a student at Ohio University and I have had the unpleasant experience of having to use this particular book for 3 quarters now and I absolutely hate it I think it is the most ambiguous mess I have ever seen it is confusing and redundant. My professor who is using the book for this term is now dropping the book also! He feels the same as myself and all of the students who have had to endure this book. I am so glad future students will not have to struggle with this in the future....by the way I was a 4.0 student until this particular class and the use of this book my average has now dropped to a 3.8. I am a straight A student in EVERY other aspect of my college career. I will bring my average back to the 4.0 I am used, to with no thanks to this book and its rediculous content.

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Summary: Textbook, But Not
Review: I used this book as a special education undergraduate. I found it contained all of the essential information in a format that was not bogged down with technical language. I have since loaned the book to several parents who found its information useful and its style easy and unintimidating. It is full of common, everyday examples in order to help one transition from the theoretical to the concrete.

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Summary: Textbook, But Not
Review: I used this book as a special education undergraduate. I found it contained all of the essential information in a format that was not bogged down with technical language. I have since loaned the book to several parents who found its information useful and its style easy and unintimidating. It is full of common, everyday examples in order to help one transition from the theoretical to the concrete.

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Summary: Reveiw on "Behavior Modification, What it is and how to do"
Review: This book provides an excellent introduction to behavioral theory and practice. The examples are interesting and helpful.

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Summary: Behavior Modification: What it is and how to do it
Review: This book provides an excellent introduction to behavioral theory and practice. The examples are interesting and helpful.

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Summary: extraordinarily useful
Review: This is a textbook...but very interesting and readable. It covers the basic concepts of applied and theoretical behavior modification (continuous reinforcement, extinction, shaping, intermittent reinforcement and all its reinforcement schedules, stimulus control, fading, conditioned reinforcement, chaining, generalization, punishment, escape and avoidance conditioning, respondent conditioning, instruction, modeling, guidance, situational inducement, as well as gathering and assessing data, researching, and designing programs and lots of other things...) and even though I am not a student at a school or university, I have taken to completing the study questions and exercises at the end of each chapter just for a greater understanding of the topic. This book is very practical and deals with case studies and references to other studies. Both authors seem to have large amounts of personal experience with behaviorism, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the whole thing the first time through, and am enjoying my second round even more now that I can grasp the concepts a little better. Behaviorism is presented in the way it should be: as a science subject to skepticism, replication, and the scientific method in general. Even so, this book isn't so dry that you need to add water.