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 contingencies for responding - roughly speaking, the "reasons" for behaving. 2) The degree to which an individual has been deprived or satiated with a particular reinforcer. 3) The extent to ...

Reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The reinforcer, or the reinforcing stimulus, is the event which increases the frequency of the performance it follows. A reinforcing stimulus may also have other effects on behavior. One of these ...

Recovery

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The recurrence of the rate of a response that had been reduced when aversive stimuli no longer are present or delivered contingent on the response. 2) Return to an earlier level of responding ...

Spontaneous recovery

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) After a period of extinction, rate of response may be close to operant level. After some time, the organism is again placed in the setting and extinction is continued. Responding recovers, but ...

Operant level

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The rate of an operant before any known conditioning. For example, the rate of key pecking before a peck-food contingency has been established. 2) How often, how rapidly, or how forcefully a ...

Parsimony

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The use of no unnecessary concepts, principles, and assumptions. 2) In science, an approach to explanation that favours simplicity and a reliance on the fewest principles.

Repertoire

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The term repertoire is used to indicate the total number of latent performances which the organism may emit under the various conditions present in its environment and as a result of its past ...