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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Delayed imitation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Imitation may occur when a model is present, or it may be delayed for some time after the model is absent. Delayed imitation is often taken as a more complex form of imitation since it involves ...

Delayed conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A respondent conditioning procedure in which the CS is presented a few seconds before the US occurs. 2) A respondent conditioning procedure in which the CS is presented for a brief period, and ...

The time from a response to a later reinforcer. Reinforcers usually lose effectiveness as delay increases, but properties of delay procedures complicate the determination of the delay-of-reinforcement ...

Delay conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Respondent conditioning in which the CS is presented for some fixed, extended time period (in most usages, no less than 5 seconds) before the US is presented.

Differential reinforced

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any stimulus with a discriminative function; according to an older usage, a stimulus correlated with reinforcement when another is correlated with extinction. The latter usage has become less common ...

Differential rate reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Reinforcement (continuous or intermittent) which depends upon the immediately receding rate of responding. This may be the reciprocal either of the time elapsing between the reinforced response and ...