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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Behavior analysis

A nontechnical term sometimes used to refer to the intrusion of behaviour with phylogenic origins into ongoing operant behavior. For example, raccoons ordinarily rub and wash food before eating it; ...

Social disruption

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A negative side-effect of punishment in which the person who delivers punishment and the context become conditioned aversive stimuli. Individuals will attempt to escape from or avoid the punishing ...

Ratio scale

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A measurement scale that supports the description of phenomena that allow the determination of equality, order, the equality of intervals among data values, and the equality of ratios among values. ...

Logarithmic interval scale

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A measurement scale that supports the description of phenomena that allow the determination of equality, order, and the equality of ratios among values. See Reading 10 in Readings.

Linear interval scale

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A measurement scale that supports the description of phenomena that allow the determination of equality, order, and the equality of intervals among data values. See Reading 10 in Readings.

Response-response interval

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Time elapsing between two successive responses. Inter-response time. 2) On an avoidance schedule, the time from a response that postpones shock to the onset of the aversive stimulus (if another ...

Time out

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Time (in minutes unless otherwise specified) during which the organism characteristically does not engage in the behaviour being studied. With pigeons a convenient TO is arranged by turning off ...