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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Behavior analysis

1) The variable that is managed or manipulated. In behaviour analysis, the independent variable often is a behavioural procedure, package, or other intervention or treatment program. 2) The variable ...

Interresponse time

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The time between two responses or, more strictly, from the beginning of one response to the beginning of the next. The time from a reinforcer to the next response is a latency and not an IRT, even ...

Escape

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The termination of an aversive stimulus by a response. A reduction in the magnitude of an aversive stimulus by a response is sometimes called partial or fractional escape. 2) Any behaviour that ...

Generalisation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The spread of the effects of reinforcement (or other operations such as extinction or punishment) during one stimulus to other stimuli differing from the original along one or more dimensions. To ...

Functional analysis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The process of testing hypotheses about the functional relations among antecedents, target behavior, and consequences. 2) An analysis in terms of behavioural functions (i.e., what effects ...

Fixed-ratio schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) In a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement a fixed number of performances (counted from the preceding reinforcement) are required for reinforcement. Thus on an FR 50 schedule, the fiftieth ...

Generalised reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Duplicating modelled behaviour in novel instances beyond those explicitly taught. 2) A conditioned reinforcer effective for a wide range of behaviours as a result of pairing with a variety of ...