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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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intraverbal
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A verbal response caused by a verbal stimulus, where the relationship between the stimulus and the response is one arbitrary set by the verbal community. Intraverbal behavior is concatenation as in ...
Topography of response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1.) the form of a reply in three-dimensional space. 2) the sequence (movement), shape, or location of components of a response relative to the rest of the body.
the summation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The effect of stimulus repeatedly accumulated. A Stimulus that does not generate a response if presented once can menghadilkan if presented again and again at a fairly high level.
cumulative frequency graph
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A graph in which each data point indicates the total number of times the behavior has occurred up to that point.
self-reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A misnomer for the delivery of a reinforcer to oneself based on one's own behavior. In so-called self-reinforcement, the contingencies and establishing operations that affect the behavior that is ...
systematic desensitization
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A behavioral technique used to treat phobias based on principles of classical conditioning. The first step in the procedure is to teach the client to relax; then a fear hierarchy is constructed. ...
Overjustification effect
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The psychological phenomenon that translates into a person's intrinsic desire to perform a small action once you expect to receive an extrinsic reward. Desire for the person to take the action ...
