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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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Cognition
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Cognitive processes. knowing, and the ways in which it takes place. Processes said to be cognitive are often varieties of behaviour that need not be manifested as movements and therefore must be ...
Coding coding response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An inferred variety of mediating behavior, as when humans remember visually presented letters on the basis of sound rather than geometric properties, perhaps as a result of saying or subvocally ...
Coercion
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Inducing a behavioural change toward an objective not wanted by the client through the use of threats, severely punitive contingencies, or disproportionately powerful incentives. As the value of ...
Coded interval-recording sheet
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An observation form with letter codes for each behaviour of concern designated on it, permitting simultaneous recording of several responses of one or more subjects. The presence or absence of each ...
Collateral measures
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Measures of variables that relate indirectly to changes in the target behavior. Included would be the impact on the "bottom line" as well as the unprogrammed spread of effect to other people, places ...
Collateral behaviours
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Behaviours not treated directly, yet whose rates may change as another behaviour is directly treated. Also, behaviors, other than those intentionally treated, that n-tight be influenced by the ...
Collateral behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Responding that, like mediating behavior, appears in a consistent sequential relation to reinforced behaviour while not itself instrumental in producing the reinforcer. The term does not carry the ...
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