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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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Immediate reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The effect of the reinforcement procedure decreases as the delay between the response and the outcome increases. Reinforcers delayed more than 60 seconds have little or no reinforcing effect. 2) ...
History
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) One kind of threat to internal validity is called history. History refers to conditions that are changed at the same time as the manipulation of the independent variable. See also internal ...
Higher-order conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Respondent conditioning in which the stimulus that functions as the US in producing one conditioned reflex is itself the CS of another. 2) Establishing a conditioned stimulus by pairing a neutral ...
Intermittent reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Noncontinuous reinforcement. A schedule according to which not every response is reinforced. See entries listed under schedules of reinforcement. 2) Reinforcing some but not all responses or, in ...
Fading procedure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Fading is a term used to describe a procedure for gradually changing a stimulus controlling an organism's performance to another stimulus. For example, consider a pigeon which pecks at a green key ...
Feedback
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Information transmitted back to the responder following a particular performance. seeing or hearing about specific features of the results. Feedback may function as a reinforcer or punisher; ...
Informed consent
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Consent to intervene in a way that is experimental or risky. The participant or guardian is informed of the risks and benefits and of the right to stop the intervention. 2) Clients (or their ...