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

Acquiring particular discriminations by means of instruction designed to prevent errors. Sequences of artificial discriminative stimuli are arranged carefully and faded slowly and systematically so ...

Extraneous sources of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

All nonprogrammed sources of reinforcement in a situation that affect behaviour on a specified alternative. See also quantitative law of effect.

Free recall

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A verbal learning procedure in which the learner recalls the items of a list, usually after a single presentation, without regard to the original order of the items.

In vivo desensitisation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A variation of systematic desensitisation in which the anxiety-arousing situations to which the person is exposed are real, rather than imagined.

In-house research

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A style of research in which a study is designed to serve strictly local purposes and is not intended to be published in the archival literature.

Explanatory research

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A style of research in which the primary goal is to understand the nature or mechanisms of the relationship between the independent and dependent variable. See Demonstration research

Establishing stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus that gets paired with an establishing operation, and the response or stimulus change it evokes becomes a conditioned stimulus for that operation. It cues or prompts the occurrence of the ...