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.

Industry: Psychology

Add a new term

Contributors in Behavior analysis

Become a Contributors

Behavior analysis

Magazine

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The term magazine refers to a mechanical device containing a supply of food which can be delivered in small portions to the organism. 2) A mechanical device which makes food, water, etc., ...

1) The mean rate over a fairly large segment of behavior. See also rate of responding. 2) The mean rate for a still longer period of time (of the order of minutes or hours). Frequently applying to ...

Social validity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The goals, procedures, and results of an intervention are socially acceptable to the client, the behaviour analyst, and society. 2) The use of outside yudges to determine whether a behavioural ...

Reliability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The extent to which a measurement procedure yields the same value when brought into repeated contact with the same state of nature. Repeatability. A property of behaviour that is described in ...

Phylogeny

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The evolution of a genetically related group of organisms. A behaviour with phylogenic origins is one that was acquired by the species during the course of its evolution as a result of ...

Pavlovian conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Any procedure by which an event comes to elicit a response by being paired with an event that elicits that response. 2) The term Pavlovian conditioning is synonymous with reflex or respondent ...

Respondent conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Respondent conditioning occurs when an organism responds to a new event based on a history of association with a biologically important stimulus. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered ...