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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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Behavior analysis

Unlearned reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus, event, or condition that is a reinforcer, though not as a result of pairing with another reinforcer.

Learned reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus, event, or condition that is a reinforcer because it has been paired with another reinforcer.

Warning stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus that precedes an aversive condition and thus becomes a learned aversive stimulus.

Terminal rate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus that functions as a reinforcer because of its contingent relation to another reinforcer. Such stimuli have also been called secondary reinforcers, but this designation is best reserved for ...

Stimulus-response chain

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A sequence of discriminative stimuli and responses. Each response produces a change in the environment that acts as a discriminative stimulus or operandum for the next response.

Second order schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule that reinforces a complex operant consisting of completion of a schedule requirement (e.g., with FR 10 reinforced according to an Fl schedule, every tenth response that occurs at least 50 ...

Time schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule of response-independent reinforcer deliveries. Aside from this difference, time schedules are classified like interval schedules. Infixed-time (FT) schedules, the time between reinforcers ...

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