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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Freeze technique

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Instructing individuals to become immobile while maintaining the current topography of their behavior. Used to teach people to discriminate positive and. negative examples of particular motoric ...

Identity matching

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In identity matching, the researcher presents a sample stimulus (e.g., red) and two options (e.g., red and green). The organism is reinforced for choosing the red option that corresponds to the ...

In the free operant method, an organism may repeatedly respond over an extensive period of time. The organism is "free" to emit many responses or none at all. More accurately, responses can be made ...

Explanatory fiction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Is a statement that has the form of an explanation but whose "cause" is really the same as its "effect." In an explanatory fiction the same set of facts is described both by the behaviour that is ...

Equal-ratio graph

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Is a graph which has numbers spaced on the vertical axis so that ratios will be equal up and down the graph. If you multiply or divide by a certain amount (that is, change by a certain ratio) you ...

Intermittent reinforcement effect

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Intermittent reinforcement schedules generate greater resistance to extinction than continuous reinforcement (CRF).

Ecobehavioral assessment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Studying behaviour in relation to its context-ongoing and previous contingencies. Ecobehavioral assessment considers how a behaviour change may affect and be affected by contextual conditions as well ...