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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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Learned helplessness
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) In the phenomenon called learned helplessness, an animal is first exposed to inescapable and severe aversive stimulation. Eventually the animal gives up and stops attempting to avoid or escape the ...
Schedule of reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) In relation to responses, a schedule of reinforcement is the arrangement of the environment in terms of discriminative stimuli and behavioural consequences. 2) A rule governing the delivery of ...
Rules
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Describe outcomes that are either too small (though often of cumulative significance) or too improbable. The delay isn't crucial. 2) Describe. outcomes that are both sizable and probable. The ...
Performance
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Behavior, usually over extended time periods. A subject matter in itself, performance has often been treated instead as an index of something else (e.g., learning, motivational states). 2) ...
Setting event
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The context or circumstance in which an environment-behavior relationship occurs. The event changes the strengths of stimuli and responses involved in an environment-behavior interaction. 2) ...
Process
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The changes in behaviour produced by an experimental operation. 2) Any change in rate of responding, specifically as the result of an experimental operation.
Stimulus generalisation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The behavioural contingencies in the presence of one stimulus affects the frequency of the response in the presence of another stimulus. 2) The tendency for the effects of training in one ...
