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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Chain schedule of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A chain schedule of reinforcement involves two or more simple schedules (CRF, Fl, VI, FR, or VR), each of which is presented sequentially and signalled by an SD. Only the final or terminal link of ...

Chain

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A complex behaviour consisting of two or more response segments that occur in a definite order. A chain can be homogeneous or heterogeneous. Homogeneous chains consist of responses that are ...

Changeover

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The switching from one response to another, as when a pigeon in a two-key chamber moves from pecking the left key to pecking the right key.

Chamber

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A space designed to minimise interference from stimuli (e.g., laboratory noises) irrelevant to experimental conditions, and including devices for recording behaviour (see OPERANDUM) and presenting ...

Chaining

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The result when one response* alters some of the variables which control another response. For example, the first number a student writes in solving a long division problem becomes part of the ...

Chained schedules

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which responding under one stimulus on a given schedule is reinforced by the production of a second stimulus in the presence of which a response is reinforced on a second schedule with ...