BEHV 5500 - Functional Analysis and Behavior Disorders

3 hours

Designed to provide an advanced treatment of the literature in functional analysis and behavior disorders. Students are exposed to the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of the functional analysis literature, including early operant accounts of problem behavior, the development of procedures designed to reveal operant functions of problem behavior, advances in assessment technologies, and novel applications and extensions. Students are encouraged to extend our current understanding of functional analysis to new populations, problems and solutions.

Prerequisite(s): BEHV 5000, BEHV 5100, and BEHV 5140 or consent of instructor.

Course specific fees (in addition to tuition and mandatory):
Academic (AF) per hour: $18.40