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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Experimental control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reference to the management or control of different variables in a study, including independent and extraneous variables.

Intraorganism

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reference to the level of the individual organism (e.g., behaviour is an intraorganism phenomenon in that it involves only relations between the individual organism and its environment).

A process inferred from a response decrement. The term, extended to behaviour by analogy to usage in physiology, is appropriate only when it can be demonstrated that the decrement is produced by an ...

Habituation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reduction, over repeated presentations, in the respondent behaviour elicited by a stimulus.

Hierarchy, of behaviour or responses

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A ranking of response classes on the basis of their relative probabilities. A more probable class is said to be higher in the response hierarchy.

Instructional training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A procedure that consists of three parts. (1) The teacher provides a verbal description of the desired behavior; (2) the learner produces the instructed behavior; and (3) the teacher arranges for ...

Incompatible performance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A performance is incompatible with another when it is impossible for both performances to occur at the same time. Thus the behaviour of clasping the hands behind the back is incompatible with ...