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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Conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The process of changing a behaviour that involves interactions between responses and environmental events whose effects depend upon the processes of reinforcement. 2) The strengthening of a ...

Conditioned suppression

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reduction in rate in the presence of a previously neutral stimulus which has characteristically preceded an aversive event. (E.g., a 3-minute tone which has repeatedly been followed by a strong ...

Conditioned stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A stimulus that acquires its eliciting properties through previous pairing with another stimulus. 2) A stimulus which acquires the property of eliciting a previously unconditioned response is ...

Conditioned response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A learned response elicited by the presentation of a conditioned stimulus. 2) Responses in which the class of eliciting stimuli has acquired this function because of a history of being paired ...

Conditional stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Elements of a stimulus have their value or function only when they are combined; otherwise, the individual elements are relatively neutral.

Conditional probability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The probability of one event given some other event (e.g., if responses A and B occur equally often but A is followed by A 75 percent of the time and by B 25 percent of the time, the simple ...