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.

Industry: Psychology

Add a new term

Contributors in Behavior analysis

Become a Contributors

Behavior analysis

Flooding

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A form of desensitisation training in which the client is exposed to real or imagined situations that are very disturbing until they no longer arouse anxiety. The procedure typically causes great ...

Fine-grain repertoire

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A fine-grain repertoire refers to an operant performance which changes under the control of small variations in the stimulus. Examples of this are drawing from copy or steering a car. The phrase, ...

Indirect-acting contingency

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A contingency that controls the response, but not because the outcome reinforces or punishes that response.

Functional response class definition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A definition of a response class that is based on the functional relations between its responses and classes of antecedent and consequent environmental events.

A body of mathematical data analysis procedures used to determine the likelihood that the effects of the experimental condition occurred by chance or to further support an alternate conclusion. In ...

Internal validity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) When many extraneous variables are ruled out by an experimental design, the research has high internal validity. That is, changes in the dependent variable may be reasonably attributed to changes ...

Experimental group

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Those subjects exposed to experimental or treatment conditions so as to provide a basis for comparison to the performance of subjects exposed to control conditions. 2) A group of subjects exposed ...