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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An adjustable stimulus is one which an animal may change as a result of its own behavior. A procedure where a bird may increase the length of a line by pecking at one key and decrease it by pecking ...

Be concrete

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Always pinpoint specific behaviours when you deal with a behavioural (psychological) problem.

Aversive condition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Negative reinforcer. Any stimulus, event. or condition whose termination immediately following a response and increases the frequency of that response.

Behavioural dimensions

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurable descriptive characteristics (Parameters) that qualify particular aspects of the performance, such as frequency, rate, intensity, duration, topography, and accuracy.

Backup reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcer that may be received in exchange for a token. (See token economy.)

Behaviour analysis procedures or strategies

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Interventions or treatments used to induce behavioural change. behavioural procedures, or strategies, are used to occasion, teach, maintain, increase, extend, restrict, inhibit, or reduce behaviors. ...

Abnormal

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behaviour that is not typically observed, or is out of the ordinary or unusual. This term is relativistic in nature and refers to groups of individuals, and may pertain to specific subpopulations ...