Applied Behavior Analysis primarily aims to...

Applied Behavior Analysis primarily aims to...

• A. Reinforces positive behaviors and discourages negative responses to build skills (communication, social, play, self help)
• B. Diagnoses learning disabilities
• C. Teaches through free association
• D. Focuses on dream interpretation

Answer: (A)

Applied Behavior Analysis centers on increasing useful, socially significant behaviors by systematically applying reinforcement and other consequences, and by measuring behavior to guide decisions. This approach aims to build communication, social, play, and self-help skills by teaching through structured techniques such as praise or rewards for desired responses, prompting, shaping, and task analysis, with progress tracked through data. The emphasis is on creating reliable, lasting change in real-life settings. The other approaches listed come from different fields: diagnosing learning disabilities is an educational/psychological assessment task, free association is a psychoanalytic technique, and dream interpretation belongs to psychodynamic theories.

Applied Behavior Analysis centers on increasing useful, socially significant behaviors by systematically applying reinforcement and other consequences, and by measuring behavior to guide decisions. This approach aims to build communication, social, play, and self-help skills by teaching through structured techniques such as praise or rewards for desired responses, prompting, shaping, and task analysis, with progress tracked through data. The emphasis is on creating reliable, lasting change in real-life settings.

The other approaches listed come from different fields: diagnosing learning disabilities is an educational/psychological assessment task, free association is a psychoanalytic technique, and dream interpretation belongs to psychodynamic theories.