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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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Time sampling
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A method of recording used mostly in applied behaviour analysis. behaviour is sampled over a long time scale. The idea is to make observations at specified times throughout the day. For example, a ...
Time-sample recording
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A method of observation in which a response occurrence is recorded if some part of a behavioural episode is observed within one of a series of discontinuous intervals.
Test-retest reliability
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A method of assessing the reliability of a test by correlating the scores from two administrations of the same test.
Within subject design
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A method of arranging comparisons between experimental and control conditions in which each subject is exposed to both control and experimental conditions and data representing the performance of ...
Response deprivation hypothesis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A hypothesis that states when access to one activity is restricted to below baseline levels, the person will engage in the targeted activity at a level exceeding baseline rates in order to gain ...
Operant chamber
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A laboratory device used to investigate operant conditioning. An operant chamber for a rat is a small, enclosed box that typically contains a lever with a light above it and a food magazine or cup ...
Strategy
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A higher-order discriminated operant characterised by relations among different stimuli, responses, and/or consequences occurring across trials and/or conditions, rather than by specific stimulus or ...
