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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One threat to internal validity has been called instrument decay. In behavioural research, instrument decay refers to observers becoming better or worse at measuring the dependent variable. Such an ...

Emitted

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Operant behaviour is said to be emitted in the sense that it occurs at some probability in the presence of a discriminative stimulus, but the SD does not force its occurrence.

Excursion

Psychology; Behavior analysis

On the standard recorder the pen returns to a baseline after cumulating a block of responses of the order of 800 to 1000. In describing the present figures, each crossing of the paper by the pen is ...

Incomplete measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurement that only samples from the complete population of responses. May still be continuous measurement during observation periods.

Ethics

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Operating according to ethical precepts. providing for voluntariness and/or informed consent by clients or advocates; arranging the least intrusive or restrictive and most benign yet effective ...

Implicit memory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Remembering demonstrated by the effect of an item on other behaviour rather than by its recall (as when a priming stimulus enhances a learner's later recognition of a semantically related word even ...

Interobserver agreement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A procedure for enhancing the believability of data that involves comparing independent observations from two or more transducers (usually human) of the same events. Provides no information about ...