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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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Behavior analysis
Fixed consecutive number
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A two-operandum trial procedure in which trials are initiated by responses on one operandum and are terminated by a changeover to the other, and in which the changeover is reinforced if at least n ...
Facial screening
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A timeout procedure; visual stimuli are contingently blocked by a face cover, such as a cloth, blindfold or hands for a given duration. See also Timeout.
Imprenting
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A time-sampling procedure, often referred to simply as interval recording, that requires the response to be emitted throughout the entire interval for its presence to be scored. See also ...
Extinction burst
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A sharp increase in the frequency of a behaviour that is on extinction. Extinction bursts usually occur soon after a behaviour is placed on extinction. 2) A rapid burst of responses that occurs ...
Independent research
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A style of research which a researcher conceives of a study independently of any coordinated research programme or even the existing literature. See Thematic research and Box 3.
Generalised reinforcers
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A system of generalised learned reinforcers in which the organism that receives those generalised reinforcers can save them and exchange them for a variety of backup reinforcers later.
Functional analysis of behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An analysis of behaviour in terms of its products or consequences. Functionally, there are two basic types of behavior, operant and respondent. The term respondent is used to define behaviour that ...
