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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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Psychology; Behavior analysis
The availability of two or more concurrent operants even if one is consistently chosen over the other. The term is best restricted to cases in which each class is maintained by reinforcement, but it ...
Extrinsic variability
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The assumption that variability in behaviour is describable, predictable, and explainable with reference to variation in other phenomena, either organismic or environmental. See Intrinsic ...
Goal
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The intended outcome of an intervention. behavioural goals usually are presented as a statement of the direction and extent to which the target behaviour is to be changed. Increased, decreased, ...
Emission
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The occurrence of operant behavior. A response that occurs without an eliciting stimulus is said to be emitted. The term applies to responding occasioned by a discriminative stimulus as well as to ...
House light
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The light responsible for the general illumination in the experimental box.
Encoding
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The learner's behaviour with respect to the item to be remembered at the time it is presented.
Echoic
Psychology; Behavior analysis
When there is point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and response, verbal behaviour may be classified as echoic. A further requirement is that the verbal stimulus and the echoic response ...
