University of Tennessee.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1981 Fall;14(3):327-38. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1981.14-327.
The contributions of applied behavior analysis as a natural science approach to the study of human behavior are acknowledged. However, it is also argued that applied behavior analysis has provided limited access to the full range of environmental events that influence socially significant behavior. Recent changes in applied behavior analysis to include analysis of side effects and social validation represent ways in which the traditional applied behavior analysis conceptual and methodological model has been profitably expanded. A third area of expansion, the analysis of setting events, is proposed by the authors. The historical development of setting events as a behavior influence concept is traced. Modifications of the basic applied behavior analysis methodology and conceptual systems that seem necessary to setting event analysis are discussed and examples of descriptive and experimental setting event analyses are presented.
人们承认应用行为分析作为一种自然科学方法对人类行为研究的贡献。然而,也有人认为,应用行为分析对影响具有社会意义的行为的环境事件的范围提供了有限的了解。最近,应用行为分析发生了一些变化,包括对副作用和社会验证的分析,这代表了传统的应用行为分析概念和方法模型得到了有益的扩展。作者提出了第三个扩展领域,即环境事件分析。本文追溯了环境事件作为行为影响概念的历史发展。讨论了对基本应用行为分析方法和概念系统进行修改以进行环境事件分析的必要性,并提出了描述性和实验性环境事件分析的示例。