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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
Foraging
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Searching for food. Foraging in natural habitats has been treated as a chain that includes search, prey identification, capture of prey, and handling and/or consumption of prey, with concurrent or ...
Fixed-ratio
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Schedule of reinforcement. A reinforcer follows a fixed number of responses.
Fixed-interval
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Schedule of reinforcement. A reinforcer is contingent on the first response after a fixed interval of time since the last opportunity for reinforcement.
Experimental design
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The arrangement of experimental and control conditions so as to permit data-based comparisons about the effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable that will help answer the ...
Intervention package
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The addition or change of several independent variables at the same time to achieve a desired result, without testing the effect of each variable individually.
Executive function
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Stimulus control refers to a differential form or frequency of a performance in the presence of one stimulus which is not evident in the presence of another.
Information
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Strictly, the reduction in uncertainly provided by a stimulus, usually quantified in bits, the number of binary decisions needed to specify the stimulus. One bit specifies 2 alternatives, two bits 4, ...
