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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Antecedent events

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Environmental events or stimuli that occur immediately before a response. Used generically when it is not certain what function the event serves.

Adaptation period

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The phase in a behaviour analysis programme during which adaptation takes place. This can be assumed when behavioural patterns stabilize.

Base rate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The rate of a particular behaviour before it was changed. See Baseline.

Abscissa

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The horizontal or x-axis on a graph. In applied behaviour analysis, the abscissa usually depicts successive trials or the passage of time, such as days.

Believability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The extent to which the researcher can convince others to believe that the data represent what they are intended to represent and thus warrant interpretation, even though there is no unambiguous ...

Acquisition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The addition of new behaviour to an organism's repertoire. The behaviour may be a discriminated operant, a topographically complex operant, a conditional reflex relation, or the performance ...

Abstract control by a stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Sometimes the property of the stimulus which controls an operant performance may not be found in any single instance of the stimulus. When such is the case the control may be through an abstract ...