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Functional analysis of behaviour
An analysis of behaviour in terms of its products or consequences. Functionally, there are two basic types of behavior, operant and respondent. The term respondent is used to define behaviour that increases or decreases due to the presentation of a stimulus (or event) that precedes the response. Such behaviour is said to be elicited, in the sense that it reliably occurs when the stimulus is presented. There is a large class of behaviour that does not depend on an eliciting stimulus. This behaviour is called emitted and spontaneously occurs at some frequency. When emitted behaviour is strengthened or weakened by the events that follow the response, it is called operant behavior. Thus, operants are emitted responses that increase or decrease depending on the consequences they produce.
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