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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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Variable-ratio reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Variable-ratio reinforcement is a schedule of intermittent reinforcement in which reinforcement follows after a variable number of performances. The schedule is specified by the average number of ...
Randomness
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Variability generated by a process that produces events completely independent of one another, in the sense that none can be predicted from any of the others. It is a property of a distribution of ...
Variable-interval responding.
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Variable -interval schedules produce a moderate rate of responding, with almost no postreinforcement pausing.
True values
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Values of the selected dimensional quantities that resulted from the operation of the transducer and for which extraordinary precautions have been taken to insure that all possible sources of error ...
Relative rate of response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
When two or more sources of reinforcement are available (as on a concurrent schedule), relative rate of response refers to rate of response on one alternative divided by the sum of the rates on all ...
Relative rate of reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
When two or more sources of reinforcement are available (as on a concurrent schedule), relative rate of reinforcement refers to reinforcement delivered on one alternative divided by the sum of all ...
Transitivity
Psychology; Behavior analysis
When stimulus A = stimulus B and B = stimulus C, if an organism responds to stimulus A as equal to stimulus C, it is said to show transitivity. For example, if the written numbers one, two, ...
