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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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Behavior analysis
Avoidance contingency
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Response-contingent prevention of an aversive condition resulting in an increased frequency of that response.
Bootleg reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcement that is not part of, and tends to undermine, an intervention.
Applied research
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Research directed toward an analysis of the variables that can be effective in improving the behaviour under study (Baer et al., 1968). In applied behaviour analysis, research involves examining ...
Applied behaviour analysis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The attempt to solve behaviour problems by providing antecedents and/or consequences that change behavior.
Ad lib body-weight
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The weight approached or reached by a mature organism under continuous access to food.
Behavioural contingency
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The occasion for a response (behavior), the response (behavior), and the outcome of the response (behavior).
Dual-functioning chained stimuli
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus in a stimulus-response chain reinforces the response that precedes it. That stimulus also acts as an SD for the response that follows it.
