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 group contingencies

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Contingency arrangement in which members of the group are treated as if they were a single behaving individual. The group's performance determines the reinforcer each member receives. For example, ...

Imitation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An observer repeats the action that is performed by a model. 2) behaviour that duplicates some properties of the behaviour of a model. In-dtation need not involve the matching of stimulus ...

Discriminated behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Is a behaviour that is more likely to occur in the presence of the SD than in the presence of the S-delta in a discrimination-training procedure.

Discriminated avoidance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Avoidance behaviour that is emitted as a function of a warning stimulus. For example, a dog stops barking when its owner shouts, "Shut up!"

Discriminate stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any event in the presence of which a target behaviour is likely to have consequences that affect its frequency. Discriminate stimuli include SDs ("ess-dees") and S(s ("ess-deltas").

Discrete trials procedure

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A way of arranging the subject's contact with the independent variable in which the subject cannot respond until the experimenter sets up and begins each trial.