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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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Behavioural objectives
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Statements of what students should be able to do at the end of a unit of study. They are also called performance objectives and terminal objectives.
Appetitive stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Usually, a positive reinforcer, especially one the effectiveness of which lit is modifiable by deprivation.
Aversive stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus effective as a negative reinforcer or as a punisher, or that suppresses positively reinforced operant behaviour during another stimulus that precedes it. A stimulus with any one of these ...
Accuracy
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The extent to which observed values approximate the "true" state of nature.
Adaptation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A reduction, usually during the prolonged presentation of a stimulus, in the behaviour produced by that stimulus (e.g., tation to an experimental chamber).
Automaintenance
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The maintenance of autoshaped responding by continuing contingent stimulus-reinforcer relations. In negative automaintenance, the contingent stimulus-reinforcer relation operates on trials without ...
Adjunctive behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A type of behaviour that is evoked by or adjunctive to a relationship between behaviour and environment represented in a schedule involving some other behavior. Also called evoked behavior.
