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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Applied behaviour analyst

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An individual who has demonstrated mastery of the professional competencies involved in assessing behaviour and designing, implementing, evaluating, and communicating the results of an applied ...

Alternating-treatments design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An experimental design in which the replications involve presenting the different values of the independent variable in an alternating sequence under the same general conditions or in the same ...

An equation for the single operant is called the quantitative law of effect. The equation relates absolute response and reinforcement rates, using alternative sources of reinforcement as the context. ...

Activity reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Contingent access to activities (watching TV, skating, playing, and so on) that increase or maintain the occurrence of the target behavior.

Abstraction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Discrimination based on a single property of stimuli, independent of other properties; thus, generalisation among all stimuli with that property (e.g., all red stimuli as Opposed to specific red ...

Active behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behaviour which changes. Running, talking, and writing are active because we can see them progress and change. Even "thinking" is active because the thinker can "observe" his or her thoughts ...

Avoidance behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A case of negative reinforcement in which the behaviour increases in rate when it postpones or avoids completely an aversive stimulus. (Avoidance does not remove that aversive stimulus, because it ...