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

1) The vertical or y-axis on a graph. In behaviour analysis, the response measure (e.g., frequency) usually is plotted on the ordinate. 2) The vertical line of a graph, used to display the amount or ...

Polydipsia

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The schedule-induced enhancement of water intake. 2) A form of adjunctive behaviour involving excessive consumption of water. See adjunctive behavior. 3) Polydipsia or excessive drinking is ...

Shock-shock interval

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The scheduled time between shocks on an avoidance schedule. 2) In avoidance conditioning, the interval between successive shocks when no response has been made in that interval.

Resistance to extinction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The responses entitled, the time elapsed, or the number of trials until performance has met some extinction criterion (e.g., the number of responses emitted before 10 minutes pass with no ...

Shaping

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The process of building an operant by reinforcing only those responses that are closest to it. When the operant we want is a response to a certain kind of stimulus (such as answers to a question ...

Reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The procedure of providing consequences for a behaviour that increase or maintain the frequency of that behavior. 2) The operation of immediately following responses with consequences that result ...

Punishment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The procedure of providing consequences for a behaviour that decrease the frequency of that behavior. 2) A procedure in which a punisher or aversive stimulus is presented immediately following a ...