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'''Applied behavior analysis''' ('''ABA'''), also referred to as '''behavioral engineering''',<ref name=behavioranalysislearning>{{cite book| vauthors= Pierce WD, Cheney CD| date= June 16, 2017| orig-date= 1995| title= Behavior Analysis and Learning: A Biobehavioral Approach| url= https://www.routledge.com/Behavior-Analysis-and-Learning-A-Biobehavioral-Approach-Sixth-Edition/Pierce-Cheney/p/book/9781138898585| edition= 6| ___location= New York| publisher= [[Routledge]]| pages= 1–622| isbn= 978-1138898585| access-date= 1 December 2018| archive-date= 3 June 2021| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210603031001/https://www.routledge.com/Behavior-Analysis-and-Learning-A-Biobehavioral-Approach-Sixth-Edition/Pierce-Cheney/p/book/9781138898585| url-status= dead}}</ref><ref name=behavioralpsychiatricnurse/> is a psychological fielddiscipline that uses [[respondent conditioning|respondent]] and [[operant conditioning]] to change human and animal behavior. ABA is the applied form of behavior analysis; the other two are: [[radical behaviorism]] (or the philosophy of the science) and [[experimental analysis of behavior]], which focuses on basic experimental research.<ref name="Baer_1968">{{cite journal | vauthors = Baer DM, Wolf MM, Risley TR | title = Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis | journal = Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 91–97 | date = 1968 | pmid = 16795165 | pmc = 1310980 | doi = 10.1901/jaba.1968.1-91 }}</ref>

The term ''applied behavior analysis'' has replaced [[behavior modification]] because the latter approach suggested changing behavior without clarifying the relevant behavior-environment interactions.<ref name="JEAB"/><ref name=Mace1994>{{cite journal|author=Mace, FC|title=The significance and future of functional analysis methodologies|journal=Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis|volume=27|issue=2|pages=385–392|date=1994|pmid=16795830|pmc=1297814|doi=10.1901/jaba.1994.27-385}}</ref><ref name=PeliosEtAl1999>{{cite journal|author=Pelios, L, Morren, J, Tesch, D, Axelrod, S|title=The impact of functional analysis methodology on treatment choice for self-injurious and aggressive behavior|journal=Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis|volume=32|issue=2|pages=185–195|date=1999|pmid=10396771|pmc=1284177|doi=10.1901/jaba.1999.32-185}}</ref> In contrast, ABA changes behavior by first assessing the functional relationship between a targeted behavior and the environment, a process known as a [[Functional analysis (psychology)|functional behavior assessment]]. Further, the approach seeks to develop socially acceptable alternatives for maladaptive behaviors, often through implementing [[Positive reinforcement|differential reinforcement contingencies]].<ref name="JEAB"/><ref name=Mace1994/><ref name=PeliosEtAl1999/>