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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complex behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behavior consisting of two or more subsets of responses. (Almost all the kinds of behavior with which applied behavior analysts are concerned are complex.)

Matching response and reinforcing events (for example, in some programs, designed for installation on discrimination, the emergence of a discriminating stimulus may coincide with the answer in his ...

Behavioural contract

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The negotiated goals and procedures of a behaviour analysis program, mutually agreed on by the client or advocate and other involved persons, and modifiable by joint agreement. Also called a ...

Behaviour modification

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Interventions that are designed to change behaviour in a precisely measurable manner. Often used interchangeably with the terms applied behaviour analysis and behaviour therapy. However, applied ...

Backward conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) In the respondent procedure backward conditioning, the US comes on before the CS. The general consensus has been that backward conditioning is unreliable, and many researchers question whether it ...

Behavioural contrast

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Contrast refers to a negative association between the response rates on the two components of a multiple schedule-as one goes up the other goes down. There are two forms of contrast, positive and ...

Behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Everything that an organism does, including covert actions like thinking. 2) Anything a person does that can be observed. 3) Anything an organism does. Although the definition is too inclusive ...