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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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Attention
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Discriminative responding based on some stimulus or stimulus property. An organism is said to attend to a stimulus or stimulus property when variation of that stimulus or stimulus property changes ...
Backward chaining procedure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Effecting the development of a behavioural chain of responses by reinforcing the last response, element, or link in the chain first; the last two next, and so on, until the entire chain is emitted as ...
Behavioural principles
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Lawful relations between behaviour and the variables that control it, discovered through experimental analyses of behavior. behavioural principles may help to explain prior and present performance ...
Availability
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In the metaphor of memory storage and retrieval, the status of an item that has been stored; if it is stored, it is said to be available whether or not it can be retrieved. Any retrieved item is ...
Artificial selection
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In the Darwinian account of evolution, the variety of selection practised by humans, in selective breeding in horticulture, animal husbandry, etc.
Back-up reinforcer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An object or event that already has demonstrated its capability to reinforce an individual's behavior. It is received in exchange for a specific number of tokens, points, or other exchangeable ...
