Domains

• Basic Research: Research that primarily contributes to knowledge about fundamental principles of behavior; target behavior is selected based on scientific goals rather than social significance (can include verbal behavior in humans); any species; theoretically driven; data-based; premium placed on experimental control; activity carried out under auspices of research protocol.
  

• Applied Research: Research that primarily contributes to knowledge about how/why interventions, service delivery systems, or their components achieve desired behavior change; target behavior selected on basis of its social significance; human emphasis; intervention designed to improve performance or adaptive functioning of individuals or behavioral systems; data-based; development of new technology for behavior change; activity carried out under auspices of research protocol.
  

• Translational Research: Research that bridges basic and applied domains by extending fundamental principles of behavior to socially significant contexts, or by using socially relevant problems to inform basic understanding; may involve adaptation of basic procedures for applied settings, validation of laboratory findings in real-world contexts, or bidirectional testing of behavioral processes; data-based; can include human and nonhuman participants.

• Service Delivery: Intervention-driven activity to produce desired behavior change rather than to identify how/why interventions, service delivery systems, or their components achieve those goals; extension of existing technology to new setting or population; also may include public policy, regulatory, ethical, and related service-delivery issues.
  

• Theory: Theoretical; conceptual; integrative statements about organizations of facts; interpretations; mathematical models/quantitative analyses; also can include historical and philosophical analyses or reviews.
  

• University Program: Undergraduate and graduate University programs.