This document provides an overview of contingency contracting as part of applied behavior analysis. It defines key concepts like permanent products, treatment packages, self-management, and delayed reinforcement. Contingency contracting, also called a behavioral contract, establishes the contingent relationship between a behavior and reinforcer in writing and with all parties' agreement. The contract should specify the behavior, individual, when it occurs, the individual's skills, evidence of the behavior, the reward, and who will collect behavior data and when. An example contract is then provided that aims to reduce a child's drawing on walls by providing an art supply reward for not engaging in the behavior each day as measured by her father collecting daily data.

1. Know Your
Behavior
Applied Behavior
Analysis

2. We Are Going To Focus
On:
Contingency Contracting

3. Definition
◦ Permanent Product: Measurement takes place after behavior has occurred.
◦ Treatment Packages: BASP: Treatment plan that written for BCBA, Parents,
Caregivers, and others.
◦ Self- Management: Behavior (controlling response) that a person purposefully
emits to influence another Behavior (controlled response)
◦ Delayed Reinforcement: reinforcement that delayed.

4. Definition
◦ Rule Governance: behavior that has been generated through exposure to rule,
specifying the consequence without directly experiencing it.
◦ Repertoire: Collection of knowledge & skills an individual knows.
◦ Response Prompting: prompt that operate directly on the response.

5. Contingency Contracting
AKA Behavioral Contract
Contingency: the contingent relationship between
the individual exhibiting a certain behavior & a
certain reinforcer.
Contract: a permanent product (written) that
stipulates the contingency in detail that all parties
design & sign.
Permanent Product
Used in Treatment Packages (BASP)
Can lead to Self- Management & Self- Contract
Delayed Reinforcement
Rule Governance
Response Prompting

6. 3component
Behavior
Reward
Data

7. Behavior: Description of
the behavior
What?
Behavior
Definition
Who?
Individual (s)
When?
(Start/ End/
Renewal)
How?
Repertoire
Mastered/ %
Evidence?
Permanent
Product

8. Reward: Description of
the Reward
Reward
Who will give the
reward?
What is the
reward?
When the reward
will be giving?
How much the
reward?

9. Data: Behavior Data
Who
Will
take the
Data
When
Will the
data be
reviewed/
Graphed
Where
Is data
recorded
on the
behavior

10. Example

11. ◦Individuals:
◦ Giver: Dad
◦ Behaver : Nancy
◦Behavior: Draws on the wall
by crayons, markers, pencil,
or paint
◦When:
◦ Start: Monday Morning
◦ End: Sunday Afternoon
◦ Renewal: Every Monday
Morning
◦ Repertoire: Nancy knows there
is a lot of papers that she can
draw on.
◦ Evidence (Permeant Product):
No drawing on the wall by
crayons, markers, pencil, or paint.
◦ Reward: Dad will take Nancy to
art store/ toy store to buy $5
worth of art supplies/ toy.
◦ Data: Dad will collect data every
day at night.

12. Reference ◦ Cooper J.O, Heron T.E, Heward W.L. Applied behavior
analysis (2nd ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson; 2007.

13. Know Your
Behavior
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