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.

Industry: Psychology

Add a new term

Contributors in Behavior analysis

Become a Contributors

Behavior analysis

Positive reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A stimulus that occurs immediately following responding, resulting in an increase in some aspect of the response class over baseline levels. 2) A reinforcing event in which something is added ...

Task analysis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An analysis of complex behaviour and sequences of behaviour into component responses. 2) Breaking down a complex skill, job or behavioural chain into its component behaviors, subskills, or ...

1) An an experimental design in which a treatment is introduced at different times (according to a staggered schedules) to determine its effect on two or more behaviours in one individual or on two ...

Learning history

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) All the environmental events (antecedents and consequences) that have affected a person's behaviour up to the present. 2) The sum of an individual's behaviours that have been conditioned or ...

Occasion

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An opportunity for a response or some other event, or the circumstances under which a contingency operates, as when discriminative stimuli set the occasion on which responses have some ...

Tact

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An intraverbal is a class of verbal operants regulated by verbal discriminative stimuli. In everyday language, thematically related words (or sentences) are examples of intraverbals. For example, ...

Link

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An intact response or performance, that is combined with others in the formation of a behavioural chain. 2) A response in a chain or a component in a chained schedule.