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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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Operant conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An increase or decrease in operant behaviour as a function of the consequences that follow responses. 2) Reinforcing consequences immediately following the response increase its future ...
Eidetic memory
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Sometimes referred to as photographic memory, recall rare type, usually in children in which Visual stimuli are described in detail, as if seen, long after they were submitted.
split-half reliability
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A method of assessing the reliability of a test by dividing the items on the test into two halves, such as odd- versus even-numbered items, and using the correlation between the two versions as an ...
Trash of knowledge
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Man or centre or organisation who/which in learning well but can't use available or not pruduce benefity by them knowledge.
Instict
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A way of behaving that is natural and automatic rather than learned. Animals use instinct to defend territory.
Pavlov
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Russian scientist who was among the first people to study how the repetition of events can affect animal behavior.
Mimicry
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The ability of a living thing to look like another living thing or like its surroundings. Some insects use mimicry as protection against predators.
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