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 respondent conditioning procedure that generates skeletal responses. For example, a key light is turned on a few seconds before grain is presented to a pigeon. After several pairings of key light ...

Aggression

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A side effect of presenting aversive stimuli or removing positive reinforcers, which may generate responses that injure other organisms (e.g., biting) and/or increase the effectiveness with which ...

Burst

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A series of responses emitted at a high rate and bounded by lower-rate responding, especially after a stimulus.

Adjusting schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A form of schedule in which a value (e.g., of interval or ratio) is changed in some systematic way from reinforcement to reinforcement as a function of the performance (e.g., a fixed ratio is ...

Artificial reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcer not usually present in the natural setting or not a natural consequence of the behavior. For example, trinket rewards serve as artificial reinforcers in many school programs.

Box

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An experimental chamber containing the organism during an experiment, usually with some degree of sound and light shielding, and containing one or more manipulanda, reinforcing devices, and ...

Behavioural dynamics

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An area of research that attempts to analyse schedule effects in terms of a few basic processes. behavioural dynamics requires a high level of mathematical sophistication. Both linear and nonlinear ...