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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Variability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Any differences among events. With regard to behavior, variations in features of responding within a single response class, as well as variations in the summary measures of that class across ...

1) Reinforcers per unit time; sometimes used in preference to reinforcement frequency because frequency occasionally refers not to reinforcers per unit time but rather to reinforcers per response, ...

Local rate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Rate of responding in some small re ion of a curve. Contrasted with overall rate. See also rate of responding. 2) Rate measured over a short time. The tangent of the cumulative curve at any given ...

Operant reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Presenting a reinforcing stimulus when a response occurs, or arranging such presentation. 2) Operant behaviour refers to those performances which are increased in frequency by operant ...

Tandem schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule of intermittent reinforcement in which a single reinforcement is programmed by two schedules acting in succession without correlated stimuli. E.g., in tand FI 10 FR 5 a reinforcement ...

Variable interval

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule in which a person is reinforced for the first response after a varying period of time has passed since the previous reinforcement. This schedule usually causes a person to respond at a ...

Ratio schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule in which the last of a specified number of responses is reinforced. In a fixed-ratio (FR) schedule, the number is constant from one reinforcer to the next; performance is characterised ...