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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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Decoding
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The learner's behaviour with respect to the item to be remembered at the time it is recalled.
Dead man's test
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An informal test of whether a particular event is a behaviour to the effect that, "If a dead man can do it, it is not behavior."
Differential-reinforcement schedules
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Schedules of differential reinforcement, especially when reinforcers depend on the temporal pacing of responses. Contingencies can be based on preceding interresponse times (IRTs), response rates ...
Differential-reinforcement procedure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcing one set of responses and extinguishing another set of responses.
Differential response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
When an organism makes a response in one situation but not in another, we say that the animal discriminates between the situations and makes a differential response.
Differential reinforcement of paced responses
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Time between the preceding response and the reinforced response is specified more narrowly as falling between certain limits.
Datadatum
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Any recorded information, usually in numerical form. Data is plural, datum is singular.
