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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Imprinted stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus that, by virtue of its presentation during some period in the lifetime of an organism, has become effective as a reinforcer. Imprinting is noted primarily in some bird species (e.g., ...

An ethological term for a sequence of responses, usually but not necessarily produced by a releaser, the consistent patterning of which cannot be attributed to the operation of an operant chain. When ...

Ethology

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An area of biology concerned with the analysis of the behaviour patterns that evolve in natural habitats, either in species or in individual organisms, with particular emphasis on those patterns that ...

Establishing operation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A procedure that affects learning and performance with respect to a particular reinforcer or aversive condition.

Hypothetical-deductive method

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An approach to experimental reasoning in which reasoning is from a set of general postulates or axioms to a series of specific theorems that can then be verified by experiment.

Response key

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The specific design and construction of the key varies, depending upon the organism operating it. The term key has come to be a generic term, synonymous with manipulanda, foot treadle, or lever. A ...

Slope

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The slope of a cumulative record refers to the tangent of the angle the record forms with the abscissa. Where the rate of the performance is changing, the slope of the record at any point is given by ...