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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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Differential penalising of high rates
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Loss or prevention of a reinforcer occurs for each response that follows the preceding response by less than some minimum delay.
Delay-reduction hypothesis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The hypothesis that it is necessary for a stimulus to be paired with a primary reinforcer in order for it to become a conditioned reinforcer. The hypothesis has been largely discounted. and the ...
Delayed response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A discriminative response that occurs some time after the removal of a discriminative stimulus, as when the sample in a matching-to-sample procedure is turned off several seconds before the ...
Delayed prompting
Psychology; Behavior analysis
When the natural antecedent stimulus (S) fails to evoke a given response, an artificial SD (prompt), usually the correct answer, is inserted to occasion the behaviour so it can then be reinforced. ...
Delayed matching to sample
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) behaviour that occurs in a consistent relation to reinforced behaviour and that, although reinforcers are not explicitly arranged for it, is maintained because it makes reinforcers more likely. ...
Deprivation operation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The procedure of restricting access to a reinforcing event. The effectiveness of a reinforcer is increased by withholding it.
Deprivation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) As operation--withholding food, water, sexual contact, etc. Any given programme establishes a "level" of deprivation. 2) As process--resulting changes in behavior, usually spoken of as an ...
