* Optimistic: According to several leading authors, practitioners skilled in behavior analysis have genuine cause to be optimistic for the following reasons:** Individual behavior is largely determined by learning and cumulative effects of the environment, which itself is manipulable** Direct and continuous measurements enable practitioners to detect small improvements in performance that might have otherwise been missed** As a practitioner uses behavioral techniques with positive outcomes, the more they will become optimistic about future success prospects** The literature provides many examples of success teaching individuals considered previously unteachable.
* Optimistic: According to several leading authors, practitioners skilled in behavior analysis have genuine cause to be optimistic for the following reasons:** Individual behavior is largely determined by learning and cumulative effects of the environment, which itself is manipulable** Direct and continuous measurements enable practitioners to detect small improvements in performance that might have otherwise been missed** As a practitioner uses behavioral techniques with positive outcomes, the more they will become optimistic about future success prospects** The literature provides many examples of success teaching individuals considered previously unteachable.