applied behavior analysis
It has been a proven fact that learning occurs when an experience causes a change in a persons knowledge, state of mind, or behavior. ... This in turn leads them to focus directly on an individuals reaction and behavior toward those features. ... Applied Behavior Analysis provides teachers with methods for encouraging positive behaviors, and not drawing blatant attention to the unfavorable ones. Applied Behavior Analysis, developed since the 1940s, has now come to be recognized as behavioral intervention.