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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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Changeover delay
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A control procedure that is used to stop rapid switching between alternatives on concurrent schedules of reinforcement. The COD contingency stipulates that responses do not have an effect immediately ...
Clinical significance
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The change is considered clinically significant if the pre-stated objective is obtained, and/or when the behaviour change has spurred correlated (ecological) changes for the participants, and their ...
Client
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The person who hires the services of the behaviour analyst, such as an agency or organization, or the person whose behaviour is targeted for change. Often, the subject of the behaviour analysis ...
Classical conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Differential conditioning, a type of respondent conditioning in which one stimulus is followed by the US but a second is not (e.g.,. food in the mouth follows bell but not tone). Discrimination has ...
Chunking
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The arbitrary creation of larger verbal units, as when a mnemonic system is used to convert a sequence of digits to a single word.
Graduated guidance
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The combined use of physical guidance and fading, resulting in a systematic gradual reduction of the intensity of physical guidance.
Intrinsic variability
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The assumption that variability in behaviour is in one way or another inherent and therefore immutable in human (and animal) nature. See Extrinsic variability.
