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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Food deprivation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In many animal experiments with food reinforcement, it is necessary to stop giving the animal food for a period of time so that the experimenter may use food as an effective reinforcer. When an ...

Incidental learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In human learning, learning that occurs in the absence of instructions or consequences, and usually contrasted with intentional learning.

Conditional stimulus control that emerges as a by-product of other stimulus-control relations rather than through differential reinforcement. For example, if arbitrary matching has been arranged for ...

Equivalence class

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus class (usually produced through conditional discrimination in matching-to-sample) that includes all possible emergent relations among its members. The properties of an equivalence class ...

Facultative behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Collateral behaviour generated by properties of a schedule of reinforcement. See also adjunctive behavior.

Escape behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) behaviour that reduces or removes aversive stimulation, thereby producing negative reinforcement. See also Negative reinforcement. E 2) behaviour that is reinforced by getting out of an aversive ...

Intrinsic aversive stimuli

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Aversive properties integral or natural to particular acts, such as doing excessive exercise, being totally inactive, or repeating the same movement excessively.