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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Socially mediated negative reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Proportion equations describe concurrent performance when alternatives differ only in rate of reinforcement. However, in complex environments, other factors also contribute to choice and preference. ...

Property of a stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Property of a stimulus refers to a single dimension of the stimulus which may control a performance differentially from other dimensions of the stimulus. Thus, a stimulus might be described as a ...

Multiple probes

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Probing or measuring untreated responses intermittently to assess any variations in those responses due to unidentified condition(s). See also Probe.

Priming

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Presenting a stimulus that affects behaviour after the stimulus is removed (as when the brief presentation of one word lowers the recognition threshold of a semantically related word presented ...

Respondent reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Presenting a conditioned and an unconditioned stimulus at approximately the same time. See also contingency, differential reinforcement, intermittent reinforcement, continuous reinforcement, etc.

Transduction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In scientific measurement, turning physical events impinging on the observational apparatus from the subject's behaviour and its environment into a set of numerical data representing only those ...