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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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Extraneous variables
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Environmental events that are not of interpretive interest to the researcher and that may influence the subject's behaviour in ways that obscure the effects of the independent variable.
Environmental control of behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Environmental control of behaviour refers to the changes in the frequency of operant performances produced by the presence or absence of discriminative stimuli.
Incompatible behaviours
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Behaviours which an individual cannot do at the same time. For example, whistling and drinking are incompatible. one cannot do both at the same time.
Initial behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Behaviour that resembles the terminal behaviour along some meaningful dimension and occurs with at least a minimal frequency.
Establishing operations
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Aversive stimuli and extinction are establishing operations for aggression reinforcers.
Group contingencies
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Arrangements in which consequences are delivered to some or all members of a group as a function of the performance of one, several, or all of its members. See also Interdependent, dependent, and ...
Grammar
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Descriptions of the structural or syntactic properties of verbal behavior. Sequential grammars appeal only to the discriminative effects of prior verbal stimuli ; they are inadequate for dealing with ...
