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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Estivation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

We speak of operant behaviour as emitted because the main variable controlling the frequency of the performance is the way in which the performance changes the environment. The emitted nature of ...

VI schedules used intervals selected in irregular order from a set of intervals, often described by a mathematical progression (e.g., arithmetic, geometric). Current practise favours schedules with a ...

Interim behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Varying responding that occurs, usually early or midway rather than late within interstimulus intervals, in superstition procedures or temporal conditioning.

Illusory variability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Variability apparent in data that did not actually occur in the subject matter. Can appear as a result of inaccuracies at the stage of observation and recording or during data analysis when graphs ...

Frustration

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any operation that reduces an organism's opportunities to emit highly probable responses (or the consequences of such operations, especially emotional behavior, aggression, or escape from correlated ...