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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Theory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In science, a set of general or abstract principles based on experimentally established relationships among events used to explain a phenomenon.

In respondent conditioning, a type of higher-order conditioning in which a contingent relation between two stimuli precedes making one of them a CS. Sensory preconditioning is said to have occurred ...

Sample-specific behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In matching-to sample, differential responding to each sample stimulus, usually introduced to ensure sample stimulus control. For example, pigeon matching-to-sample may be arranged with a ...

Two-factor theory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In general, any behavioural theory involving the interaction of operant and respondent processes; more specifically, an avoidance theory stating that avoidance responses are operants reinforced by ...

Neuropharmacology

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In errorless discrimination, the trainer does not allow the organism to make mistakes by responding to the extinction stimulus. Initially SD and SI are very different, but differences between the ...

Post reinforcement pause

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In conditioned suppression, a previously neutral stimulus (e.g., tone, light, etc.) is paired with an aversive US such as an electric shock. After several pairings, the originally neutral stimulus ...

Storage

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In the memory metaphor of storage and retrieval, what the learner does when something to be remembered is presented. Some of the behaviour relevant to the stimulus that occurs at or after storage has ...