apos;s function is to establish the rules for setting up the environment to enable children to learn.
Behavior analysis dates back to Skinner, who performed animal experiments showing that food rewards led to behavior changes. (www.naar.com)
ABA does not create "robots", or brainwash people. It does not turn children into little "Pavlov's Dogs", it is merely a tool to help us understand why certain behaviors occur, and modify these behaviors should they be a problem to something more useful or beneficial to both ourselves and the person with the behaviors. Wouldn't it be better for example that instead for a child's hitting people to get their "request", they are taught a "better" way to "request," if it is a methodology that examines behaviors. There are suggestions that analyzing the causes, consequences of behaviors and applying knowledge, skills to overcome those deemed problems.
ABA uses these principles to set up an environment in which children learn. Mo
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