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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Variable time schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which reinforcement is delivered contingent on the passage of a variable time interval, not upon the occurrence of a particular response.

Ratio schedules of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which reinforcement is delivered contingent on the last of a number of responses. (a) Fixed ratio (FR) schedule-A reinforcement schedule in which a constant number of responses must ...

Titration schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which one response changes a variable in one direction and either a second response or nonoccurrence of the first changes it in the other (e.g., one response increases stimulus ...

Stereotyped response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A response with properties (especially topography) that are relatively invariant over successive occurrences.

A response that produces or clarifies a discriminative stimulus and that may be maintained by the effectiveness of that stimulus as a conditioned reinforcer. Observing responses are sometimes only ...

Remembering

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A response occasioned by a stimulus no longer present, perhaps directly or perhaps through the mediation of other behaviour with respect to that stimulus. Remembering is often discussed in terms of a ...