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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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Choice
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) From a behavioural view, choice concerns the distribution of operant behaviour among alternative sources of reinforcement. 2) The emission of one of two or more alternative and, usually, ...
Chaos
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A branch of mathematics dealing with nonlinear systems, which are drastically affected even by very small changes in their initial values (e.g., the flap of a butterfly's wings may be enough to ...
Changing criterion design
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A research design primarily used in applied behaviour analysis. The rate of target behaviour is progressively changed to some new criterion (up or down). For example, the criterion for the number ...
Changeover response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
On a concurrent schedule, the response that an organism en-dts when it switches from one alternative to another. See also Findley procedure.
Closed economy
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In operant contexts, the availability of appetitive stimuli only within the session, as reinforcers, with none provided independently of behaviour on a supplementary basis out side of the session.
Clustering
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In free recall, the reorganisation of items by the learner so that related ones are recalled together rather than in the order in which they appeared on the list.
Clock
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus some dimension of which varies systematically with time, usually measured from the preceding reinforcement but possibly from some other point. (E.g., FI + clock means reinforcement on Fl ...
