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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Subjective evaluation of experts

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Experts' evaluation of the significance of the target behaviour and the outcome.

Setup

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In reinforcement schedules (especially interval schedules), an arrangement that makes a response eligible to produce a reinforcer.

In operant behavior, a response that puts an organism in a position to entitle other responses or that allows it to attend to a discriminative stimulus . In respondent behavior, a response elicited ...

Sensitivity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In most behavioural usages, a measure of threshold (the organism's capacity to respond differentially to different stimuli or conditions.)

Simulation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Imagining; especially, covert problem solving. Simulation that takes actual contingencies into account may mediate effective behaviour in actual environments.

Premack principle

Psychology; Behavior analysis

If one activity occurs more often than another, the opportunity to do the most frequent activity will reinforce the less frequent activity. 2) A higher frequency operant will reinforce a lower ...