Behavior analysis

Behavior analysis

Behavior analysis is an approach to psychology that concerns itself primarily with observing, analysing and attempting to understand and predict the way humans behave and interact.

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Behavioural medicine

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behaviour change programmes that target health-related activities such as following special diets, self-examination for early symptoms of disease, exercising, taking medicine, and so on. In many ...

Behavioural technicians

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Auxiliary workers, such as observers and data recorders, whose services may be required to conduct some of the technical aspects of a behaviour analysis program.

Anxiety

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Anxiety is a descriptive term which refers to the changes in a performance produced by an aversive or preaversive stimulus. These changes include a decrease in the frequency of many operant ...

Accessibility

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In the metaphor of memory storage and retrieval, the retrievability of a stored item; an item that is stored but not retrievable is said to be inaccessible.

In contrast to the null hypothesis, a prediction that there are differences in between the populations of which the experimental and control groups are samples and that the differences are due to the ...

Blocking

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An attenuation of respondent conditioning with one stimulus because of prior conditioning with another (e.g., if tone and bell together precede food after bell has become a CS, tone may remain ...

Behavioural science

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In behavioural science the independent variable usually refers to events in the environment which the experimenter can manipulate and of which the behaviour of the organism (the dependent variable) ...