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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Warm up

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Acceleration at the start of a session leading to the level of performance characteristic of the bulk of the session. 2) A low or zero response rate at the start of a session followed by-an ...

Reversal design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A single case of design in which baseline and intervention conditions are repeated with the same person. 2) an experimental design in which behaviour is compared during baseline, during ...

1) A short period during which a reinforcement arranged by an interval schedule is held available. At the end of the limited hold, a response will not be reinforced until another reinforcement has ...

Three-term contingency

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A set of functional relationships among distinct classes of antecedent stimuli, responses, and consequent stimuli that together constitute the model of how behaviour is influenced by the ...

Value

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A set of behaviors, public and private, which a society reinforces. 2) Learned and unlearned reinforcers and aversive conditions.

Response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A unit of behaviour with a clear beginning and end. Responses can be operant or respondent, depending on whether they are controlled by; stimuli which follow them or by stimuli which precede them. ...

Preaversive stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A stimulus that reliably precedes an aversive stimulus and thus may be a conditioned aversive stimulus. Such stimuli may reduce the responding maintained by positive reinforcers, an effect ...