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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A spatial schema or representation. In learning a coordinated set of spatial relations, an organism is sometimes said to be developing a cognitive map. The term is most likely to be invoked when the ...

Conceptual stimulus control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Responding occurs more often in the presence of one stimulus class and less often in the presence of another stimulus class because of concept training.

Concept training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Reinforcing or punishing a response in the presence of one stimulus class and extinguishing it or allowing it to recover in the presence of another stimulus class.

Concept formation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The formation of a discrimination based on a class of stimuli such that an organism generalises among all stimuli within the class but discriminates them from those in other classes. Such classes ...

Concept

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A property or set of properties of stimuli. For example, the concept "red" is a property shared by all of the things we call "red." 2) One or a set of abstract critical properties common among a ...

Changeover ratio

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A changeover contingency that provides that no response can be reinforced until some minimum number of responses has occurred since the last changeover.

Change-over delay

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A change in the rate of one response that occurs when either the rate of a second response or the reinforcement rate produced by that response is changed in the Opposite direction, where the ...