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

An assessment that considers whether change occurred as a function of the program, the intervention was implemented as specified, and if the intervention was beneficial to the student and those in ...

Asymptote

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Maximum level respond. Often used to describe rate and level of education in respondent conditioning in which a short CS presentation will be followed by the US after a number of permanent, extended ...

vocal behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behavior that produces sound. Vocal behavior is not necessarily verbal.

total-task presentation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The simultaneous establishment of all links in a stimulus-response chain.

trial-and-error learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A term coined by Thorndike (1898, 1911) that he used to describe results from his puzzle box and maze learning experiments. Animals were said to make fewer and fewer errors over repeated trials, ...

exteroceptive stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

any stimulus presented at or outside of the organism's skin.

baseline

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A stable and, usually, recoverable performance upon which effects of experimental variables are superimposed (e.g., a drug effect may be expressed as the change produced in baseline response rate ...