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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Interdependent schedules

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Schedules in which the operation of one depends on some property of the other (e.g., in one version of inter-dependent concurrent VI VI schedules, each VI arranges setups only during runs of ...

Operant chains are classified as homogeneous when the topography or form of response is similar in each link of the schedule. For example, a bird pecks the same key in each component of the chain. ...

Imitative prompt

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A discriminative stimulus consisting of a behaviour that is modelled in order to occasion an imitative response.

Event recorder

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A device that produces one or more time lines along which the timing of events is recorded (e.g., by displacement of a marker or pen that draws a line at a constant rate).

Functional class

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A class the members of which have common behavioural functions, either produced by sin-dlar histories or acquired through emergent relations. If two stimuli are members of a functional class, then ...

Immediate feedback

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A consequence that occurs just as a response is being completed or just after it has been completed. To be immediate the consequence must occur before a second response is made. Immediate feedback ...

Environment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The complex of real circumstances in which the organism or referenced part of the organism exists. This includes any physical event or complex of events that is not part of a behaviour and may ...