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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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Inhomogeneous data
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Data derived from more than one type of performance and that, when summarised statistically, misrepresent the performances from which they were derived (as when an avoidance schedule produces both a ...
Emotional behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Correlated changes in a range of response classes (e.g., if a preaversive stimulus simultaneously alters heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, defecation, and operant behaviour maintained by ...
Implicit learning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Contingency-shaped learning (as when one learns to speak grammatically even though one cannot state the grammatical rules).
Error
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In a simultaneous discrimination, a response to a stimulus not correlated with reinforcement; in a successive discrimination, a response in the presence of a stimulus correlated with extinction. ...
Immediate-change rule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
If performance changes as soon as a rule is stated, you've got rule control, not contingency control.
Imitation training
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Imitation training consists of three parts: (1) the teacher demonstrates what behaviour the learner is to engage in (called the imitative stimulus; (2) the learner is called on to produce a similar ...
Fixed-interval schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule of intermittent reinforcement in which the first response occurring after a given interval of time, measured from the preceding reinforcement, is reinforced. A given interval schedule is ...
