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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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Dependent variable
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A variable that is measured while another variable (the independent variable) is changed in a systematic way. When systematic changes in the independent variable are accompanied by changes in the ...
Dependency
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Roughly, a contingency completely specified by the experimenter or with a conditional probability very close to I.O. dependent group contingency
Deictic verbal behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Verbal behaviour in which the function of the terms is based on their relation to the speaker (e.g., personal pronouns, here vs. there; this vs. that). In its dependence on discriminations of the ...
Deep structure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The common structural features of sentences that are related to each other by grammatical transformations.
Defensive conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Respondent conditioning in which the US is an aversive or noxious stimulus.
Chained schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A compound schedule in which a reinforcer is produced by the successive completion of two or more component schedules, each operating during a different stimulus. The equivalent arrangement with the ...
Chained responses
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A sequence of responses in which one response produces conditions essential to the next, as in making the next response possible or more likely to be reinforced. Successive responses may or may not ...
