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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Fixed interval

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which a person is reinforced for the first response after a fixed period of time has passed since the previous reinforcement. This schedule usually causes people to pause after a ...

Intermittent schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule involving intermittent reinforcement as contrasted with continuous reinforcement and extinction.

Intermittent schedule of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which some rather than all operants are reinforced. In other words, an intermittent schedule is any schedule of reinforcement other than continuous (CRF).

Interval schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which some minimum time must elapse before a response is reinforced; early responses have no effect. The time is measured from some event, typically a stimulus on set or the last ...

Intrinsic reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcer that is naturally related to the responses that produce it (as when a musician plays not for money but because the playing produces music).

Fixed ratio schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer is provided after the target behaviour has occurred n number of times.

Fixed duration schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer is provided the first time the target behaviour occurs after an interval of n length since the last reinforcement.