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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Functional equivalence

Psychology; Behavior analysis

When changes in the contingencies controlled by one pair of stimuli are sufficient to change the subject's behaviour with respect to other pairs (Sidman et al., 1989, p. 272).

Forward chaining

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A chaining procedure that begins with the first element in a behaviour chain and progresses to the last element.

The enclosure in which an operant conditioning experiment is carried out and in which a simple, easily repeatable performance can be reinforced and measured is referred to as an experimental space. ...

Flashbulb memory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The detailed remembering of the context of a surprising and significant event in one's life (e.g., where one was on hearing the news of a major political assassination).

Grain

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcer effective with food-deprived pigeons; also a characteristic of cumulative records (see RATE OF RESPONDING).

Intensity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The strength or force with which a stimulus is delivered or a behaviour is expressed. Sounds, lights, and physical blows can vary in intensity.

Fading

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A procedure for transferring control of responding from one stimulus or set of stimuli to another by gradually removing one while the other is gradually introduced. Stimuli may be faded in or out ...