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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Mean rate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Responses per unit time calculated for an interval during which changes in local rate have occurred.

Response contingent

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Response-contingent removal of an aversive condition resulting in an increased frequency of that response.

Response-cost contingency

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Response-contingent removal of a tangible reinforcer resulting in a decreased frequency of that response.

Within experiment replication

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Repetition of an entire phase during the course of an experiment.

Relative stimulus control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Relative stimulus control means that an organism responds to differences among the values of two or more stimuli. For example, a pigeon may be trained to peck in the presence of the larger of two ...

Phototaxis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Rejection of substances with a given taste after their ingestion has been followed later by gastrointestinal distress or nausea (e.g., as produced by x-irradiation). It might be interpreted as ...

Reinforcement that depends, in some way, on responding. Reinforcement that is contingent on speaking, for example, may not follow every spoken response, but it depends on speaking in that it does not ...