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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Overcorrection

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A contingency on inappropriate behaviour requiring the person to engage in an effortful response that more than corrects the effects of the inappropriate behavior. 2) The procedure of reducing ...

1) A discontinuous observation procedure in which the observational period is divided into intervals but the observer only notes the status of the target behaviour during a "moment" following the end ...

Token reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A conditioned reinforcer (e.g., a coin) that the organism may accumulate and later exchange for other reinforcers. 2) A symbol or object (i.e., cheque marks, poker chips) that can be exchanged at ...

Transfer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Substituting one set of discriminative stimuli for another (or, as a process, the stimulus control maintained after such a substitution). Transfer may be based on common properties of two sets of ...

Search

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In the storage-retrieval metaphor of memory, search for a match to some target item. The search may be exhaustive (all items are checked) or self-terminating (the search ends when a match to the ...

psychological reality

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The role of some class of events in behavior, especially in psycholinguistics (as when grammatical transformations are demonstrated as something that speakers do with sentences).