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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Behavior analysis

1) A real-time graphical representation of the rate of operant behavior. Each response produces a constant upward increment on the y-axis, and time is indexed on the x-axis. The faster the rate of ...

Cumulative graph

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A graph in which cumulative responses are represented on the vertical axis.

Critical features of stimuli

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The distinctive properties of stimuli, such as size, shape, position, and color, that enable one stimulus class to be discriminated from another. Stimuli that share a number of critical features ...

Critical feature

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A feature, perhaps one of several, upon which the discrimination among stimulus classes depends (e.g., critical features of letters of the alphabet include straight vs. curved, open vs. closed, ...

Criterion observer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The person whose recording serves as a standard against which other observers' are judged, especially during training technicians to become reliable data recorders.

Cooperative learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Interdependent and/or dependent group contingencies arranged to promote peer influence. Group members share their reinforcers. (Pg. 12) Correspondence training--delivering reinforcers contingent on ...