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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Behavior analysis

A skill that enables the individual to obtain reinforcement. Usually it is age or at least developmentally appropriate, socially significant, and likely to be reinforced or supported by the natural ...

Fixed-action pattern

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A sequence or chain of behaviour set off by a specific stimulus. The component responses are repeated almost identically with each presentation of the stimulus. Fixed-action patterns are based on a ...

Facilitation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An occasional synonym for potentiation.

Instructional demand

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An unintended alteration in behaviour as a function of variations in the way instructions are delivered in an experiment.

Inhibitory gradient

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An extinction gradient in which responding increases along the stimulus continuum as the distance from a stimulus previously correlated with extinction increases. This is taken to indicate that the ...

Generality

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An experimental result is shown to have generality when it is observed in different environments, organisms, and so on. For example, the principle of reinforcement generalises over species, settings, ...

Equivalence relation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A term with various usages, including functional equivalence (the relation between stimuli that have become members of a functional class) as well as the mathematical relations that define an ...