Applied Behavior Analysis 3rd Edition by John Cooper This text provides an accurate comprehensive and contemporary description of applied behavior analysis in order to help readers acquire fundamental knowledge and skills Applied Behavior Analysis provides a comprehensive in-depth discussion of the field offering a complete description of the principles and procedures for changing and analyzing socially important behavior. The 3rd Edition features coverage of advances in all three interrelated domains of the sciences of behavior–theoretical basic research and applied research–and two new chapters Equivalence-based Instruction (Ch. 19) and Engineering Emergent Learning with Nonequivalence Relations (Ch. 20). It also includes updated and new content on topics such as negative reinforcement (Ch. 12) motivation (Ch. 16) verbal behavior (Ch. 18) functional behavioral assessment (Ch. 27) and ethics (Ch. 31). The content of the text is now connected to the BCBA® and BCABA® Behavior Analyst Task List 5th Edition.