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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Behavior analysis

A non-technical term which describes an organism whose performances are occurring at a low frequency because the number of performances required for reinforcement is too high. It is defined as the ...

Bite

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A deviation from a smooth curve consisting of a period of relatively slow responding followed more or less abruptly by a compensatory increase in rate which restores the curve to the extrapolation of ...

Body-weight

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A collateral effect of a schedule of food deprivation used as a cheque upon such a schedule. It is usually measured immediately prior to an experimental session. A fairly constant body-weight from ...

Autocorrelation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A description of data that indicates the extent to which values in one subset of a series predict values of another subset. Also referred to as serial dependency.

Baseline condition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A condition or phase of an experiment in which the independent variable, is not present. Also called the control condition.

Behaviour trapping

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The teaching of new behaviour that, once established, is "trapped" by natural contingencies of reinforcement. 2) The procedure of bringing a target behaviour under the influence of its natural ...

Behaviourism

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The philosophy of the science of human behavior. It is the position that we can study behaviour scientifically and that we do so by finding the variables of which it is a function. Modern ...