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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Differential reinforcement of diminishing rates

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule according to which a sequence of responses repeated below a series of gradually diminishing preset rates is reinforced. (E.g., reinforcers followed when a student talked out no more than 5 ...

Differential reinforcement of alternative behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The replacement of an inappropriate response with a specific appropriate response that produces the same reinforcing outcome (i.e., either the presentation of a reinforcing condition or the ...

Differential reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The occurrence of a reinforcement on selected occasions as or after one topography of a performance as opposed to another topography, is called differential reinforcement. For example, one may ...

Discrete stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A discrete period, usually stimulus-correlated, during which an organism has an opportunity to respond. Trials are separated by intertrial intervals that may consist of any of the following. a ...

Discrete behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A behaviour that has a clearly discriminable beginning and end. Lever presses, sneezes, and writing answers to addition problems are examples of discrete responses.