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.

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Cue

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus which sets the occasion for a particular response. The technical term for cue is discriminative stimulus (Sd or S^)

Criticism trap

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A situation in which criticising a behaviour you dislike seems to work by temporarily stopping it, but which actually reinforces the behaviour so that it occurs more often in the future, not less.

Critical period

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The time during which a stimulus can become imprinted . More generally, any time period to which the operation of some behavioural process is limited.

Counterconditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The use of Pavlovian conditioning to undo the adverse effects of earlier conditioning.

A stimulus some dimension of which varies systematically with number of responses emitted, counted from the preceding reinforcement or some other marking event. FR + counter means reinforcement on FR ...

Countability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A dimensional quantity reflecting the property of repeatability that refers to the occurrence of the event being measured and which is measured in terms of the cycle as the unit of measurement. Also ...

Cumulative recorder

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A commonly used laboratory instrument that records the frequency of operant behaviour in real time. For example, paper is drawn across a roller at a constant speed, and each time a lever press ...