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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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Behavior analysis

Behaviour analysis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) behaviour analysis is a comprehensive experimental approach to the study of the behaviour of organisms. Primary objectives are the discovery of principles and laws that govern behavior, the ...

Behavioural assessment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) behavioural assessment is used to depict, as validly, clearly, and objectively as possible, an individual's patterns of behavior. Specific measures are selected based on the behaviour and its ...

Behavioural repertoire

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) behaviour that a particular person has emitted in the past. It has been shaped, or, if it has been extinguished, it may be rapidly reconditioned (Catania, 1968). 2) All the things an individual ...

Avoidance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Any behaviour that prevents a negative reinforcer from occurring. 2) The prevention of an aversive stimulus by a response. In deletion procedures, the response cancels presentations of the ...

Alternative schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule in which a response is reinforced when either of two (or more) schedule requirements is satisfied (e.g., in alternative FR 10 Fl 60-s, the tenth response or the first response after 1 ...

Backward chaining

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A method used to train a chained performance. The basic idea is to first train behaviour that is closest to primary reinforcement; once responding is established, links in the chain that are ...

Active responding

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A particular feature of instruction which requires students to behave rather than to sit and listen. Lessons in which each student talks, writes, solves problems, or otherwise responds at a high rate ...

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