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Principles of Everyday Behavior Analysis

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Principles of Everyday Behavior Analysis makes learning a basic behavioral repertoire virtually effortless. I am amused by the reviewer who gave this book one star because it was "dumbed down". I had this text in my first course in applied behavior analysis. It was the most pleasant learning experience I'd ever encountered, and made me a true believer in programmed instruction. It enabled me to acquire a good, solid, behavioral repertoire in a very short time. I went on to take numerous courses in ABA, including a course on BF Skinner's Science and Human Behavior, and his magnum opus, Verbal Behavior. I eventually earned my doctorate in experimental psychology from Boston University.

This book builds on ideas, and not too quickly. For me, it was a bit too slow (I began to read it after being in the field for a year). But for someone who really knows nothing of ABA and needs to train their brains, go for it.

The quizzes are extremely thought out. If you are starting out as an ABA tutor or want to learn priniciples, it may be a good match. Sure, not rocket science, that's why I would recommend it only as an intro or refreshener of B A S I C S. Easy reading.

This book made learning very easy and enjoyable. The format of this book is a pattern of repetition that forces you to remember the materials from various view points. This is a book I will keep for future reference.

This book is designed for students with no previous understanding of behavior analysis and breaks down each concept into easily understandable wording based on years of testing every part of the text and the quizzes by analyzing errors and readability, time taken to read specific passages, etc with students at the University of Kansas. The author was my graduate advisor so I am biased, but I have never seen a better text in behavior analysis that assures mastery of the material. I suggest anyone who reads this book and goes through the quizzes take a little time to notice how carefully every passage is programmed and presented and how easy it all seems as you go through. That is what good elegant programmed instruction produces, and it is extremely rare that anyone puts that level of energy and thought into their writing. Once you have mastered the concepts at the level presented in this book, I suggest picking up a text that takes the concepts to the next level of understanding.

Thomas Zwicker, Ph.D.

I wish more college classes would use this as their textbook, particularly intro to ABA courses. I frequently recommend this book to anyone interested in learning Behavior Analysis (or Applied Behavior Analysis - ABA). As another reviewer stated, it makes learning the content almost effortless. It uses the behavior analysis principles to make learning efficient and easy. This book was the text for the first class I took on Behavior Analysis for my master's degree, and thank goodness it was. Other books I've seen used for intro or upper level courses would have been so difficult to understand if it were not for the simple, straight-forward way the material was presented in Miller's book. Well worth the price!

Nicole Caldwell, M.Ed.
Editor, Positively Autism Newsletter

I took a behavior analysis class and this was the text book. I think all text books and self help books should be like this, because it uses repitition to make sure you know the content. I would recommend this book for beginners of learning behavior analysis. This book and the class I took was amazing.

The only problem I had was when I ordered it from Amazon, they said I would get the dvds and other materials. I never got the DVD part of it.

Product arrived in plastic wrap as promised. Great price compared to the school book store. Due to the fact that it is more of a work book than text book, I would purchase it new.

I returned this item because it was the wrong edition. The seller was very accommodating and promptly credited my Amazon account.

Do not buy this book. It is the worst ABA text book Ive ever read. Buy "Behavior Modification" by Miltenberger or the new ABA book by cooper. This book is like an ABA textbook for highschoolers. Way too dumbed down and many outright incorrect definitions of basic principles.
The built in tests are awesome though. I wish more books would do that. It really helped me and my classmates learn the material. It was for an introductory course in ABA in a school psych program an National University, and luckily the program has more classes on ABA b/c this one was not so good.

This is a level 400 Psych class and this book was very confusing, and full of examples that were nothing but Psycobabble! It was extremely redundant. Most of the information given was made much more difficult than necessary. I would have appreciated a book that was more conducive to a Senior college level and more clear in it's instruction. If you have read other Psych books, do no let this one dampen your thoughts of what a Psych class has to teach. I hated this book!