Psychology · Behavioural Psychology
A topic within Behavioural Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Some Current Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis
Donald M. Baer, Montrose M. Wolf & Todd R. Risley · 1968
Defines applied behaviour analysis by seven dimensions a study must meet - applied, behavioural, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic,…
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The Token Economy: A Motivational System for Therapy and Rehabilitation
Teodoro Ayllon & Nathan H. Azrin · 1968
Reports building an entire psychiatric ward's incentive structure around tokens exchangeable for privileges, showing operant principles derived from…
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Donald M. Baer, Montrose M. Wolf & Todd R. Risley
Defines applied behaviour analysis by seven dimensions a study must meet - applied, behavioural, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic, effective and generalised - founding the field's own standard for what counts as good work.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Teodoro Ayllon & Nathan H. Azrin
Reports building an entire psychiatric ward's incentive structure around tokens exchangeable for privileges, showing operant principles derived from animal labs could reorganise the behaviour of an institutionalised human population.
O. Ivar Lovaas
Reports that intensive early behavioural intervention brought a substantial share of young autistic children to normal educational functioning, a landmark and still-influential claim whose methodology, comparison group and reliance on aversive techniques in earlier related work have all drawn sustained criticism.
Brian Reichow, Erin E. Barton, Brian A. Boyd & Kara Hume
A Cochrane/Campbell-registered systematic review of the trials that followed Lovaas's 1987 claims finds EIBI produces small-to-moderate gains in adaptive behaviour and IQ over generic special education, but the evidence base remains a handful of studies, mostly non-randomised, far too weak to support the scale of the original claim of 'recovery.'
link checked 17 Sept 2026