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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Fixed ratio

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule in which people are reinforced for making a response only after they have made a fixed number of those responses without reinforcement. This schedule usually causes people to pause ...

1) An event that, when made contingent on a behavior, decreases the frequency of that behavior. 2) A stimulus that, when presented immediately following a response, effects a reduction in the rate ...

S delta

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An event in the presence of which a target behaviour is not reinforced. (Pronounced "ess-delta.") See discriminative stimulus. 2) An S-delta represents the particular occasion on which a ...

Vacuum activity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An ethological term referring to a response occurring not in the presence of the stimulus that usually produces it, but rather in the presence of one that usually produces some other response . ...

Target behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A written rule statement describing the desired or undesired behavior, the occasion when the behaviour should or should not occur, and the added outcome for that behavior. 2) The behaviour being ...

Mand

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A verbal response that specifies its reinforcer. In human verbal behavior, manding is usually a higher-order class, in the sense that a newly acquired tact can be incorporated into a novel mand ...

Parameter

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A variable that is held constant while some other variable changes. When different values of a parameter are examined, the parameter distinguishes different functions within a family of functions ...