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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Behavior analysis

A reinforcement procedure used to teach the response class "do as I do." The procedure involves reinforcement for correspondence between modelled performance and an imitative operant. The contingency ...

Functional relationship

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A relationship in which one variable changes systematically according to the value of another. generalisation The spread of effect from a particular stimulus to other stimuli that share common ...

Extrinsic reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcer that has an arbitrary relation to the responses that produce it (as when a musician plays for money rather than because the playing produces music). The term has also been applied to ...

Fixed-time schedule of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcer is delivered after the passage of a fixed period of time, independently of the response.

Gradient

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A related set of values on a dimension of a stimulus, along which stimulus induction has occurred.

Experimental method

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A general reference to the procedures for arranging, conducting, and interpreting experiments. In the case of a particular experiment, the actual procedures used, including measurement, experimental ...

Generalised conditioned reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A conditioned reinforcer that is backed up by many other sources of reinforcement. Money is a good example of a generalised conditioned reinforcer. Cash may be exchanged for a large variety of goods ...