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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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Generalization, stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The spread of effects to other stimulus situations when behaviour is modified in the presence of one stimulus situation. generalisation occurs when stimulus control is absent or incomplete. (The ...
Evocation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The production of a response. A response is sometimes said to be evoked if it is unclear whether it is emitted or elicited.
Functional stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The properties of a stimulus that control behavior, as opposed to the properties of the nominal stimulus (e.g., for a pigeon attending to the colour but not the form of a green circle, the functional ...
Inter-response time
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Time elapsing between two successive responses; response-response interval.
Frequency of responding
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Total responses, over a fixed time, over a session of variable duration or, in a trial procedure, over a fixed number of trials.
Go-no go discrimination
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Usually, a discrete trials successive discrimination with reinforcement in the presence of one stimulus (go) and extinction in presence of the other (no go).
Errorless discrimination procedure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The use of a fading procedure to establish a discrimination, with no errors during the training.
