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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Response class

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Operant responses that may vary in topography but produce the same or similar consequences. For example, saying "Please open the door" and physically opening the door are members of the same ...

1) Learning based on observing the responding of another organism (and/or its consequences). Observational learning need not involve imitation (e.g., organisms may come to avoid aversive stimuli upon ...

Sign tracking

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Sign tracking refers to approaching a sign (or stimulus) that signals a biologically relevant event. For example, dogs are required to sit on a mat and a stimulus that signals food is presented to ...

Self control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Self control occurs when an organism produces a change in the environment which in turn alters the frequency of some performances in its own repertoire. Thus, the dieter who stores peanuts and ...

Learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Roughly, acquisition, or the process by which behaviour is added to an organism's repertoire; a relatively permanent change in behavior. The term has been used in so many different ways in both ...

Negative reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Removing an aversive stimulus as a consequence of a response resulting in the maintenance of or an increase in rate of the behavior. A behaviour has been negatively reinforced if it increases or ...

Respondent behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) behaviour elicited by stimuli . Respondent behaviour was once considered primarily autonomic (e.g., responses of glands and smooth muscles), but the reflex relation defines respondent behaviour ...