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

1) A condition or stimulus introduced into a performance to clarify the variables controlling it (e.g., the interruption of FR responding by an occasional brief stimulus correlated with reinforcement ...

Mixed schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A compound schedule in which two or more component schedules opera te in alternation, all during the same stimulus. Occasionally, a VI or VR schedule with a limited number of schedule values is ...

Stimulus class

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A collection of individual stimuli that are functionally related to a response class. 2) A set of stimuli, all of which have some common property. 3) A set of related stimuli. 4) Stimuli that ...

Operant

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A class of responses defined by a functional relation with a class of common environmental effects. 2) A class of responses. Responses are assigned to classes because no two can be exactly the ...

Multiple baseline design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A multiple baseline research design across behaviours is used when a reinforcement procedure is applied progressively to several operants. In this case the subject, setting, and consequences ...

Token economy

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A form of contingency contract, usually involving a group of people, in which the reinforcers are tokens that may be exchanged for other (backup) reinforcers in the future. 2) A contingency ...

Simultaneous discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A discrimination in which two or more discriminative stimuli are presented at the same time rather than successively (e.g., see JUMPING STAND) and which therefore involves two or more alternative ...