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

The selection of behaviour during the lifetime of an individual organism; the modification of operant behaviour by its consequences (see especially DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT and SHAPING). This type ...

Precise behavioural measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The selection and implementation of accurate, clearly defined operations for recording and quantifying behavior. Precise measurement allows change to be measured and evaluated unambiguously.

Three-contingency model of performance management

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The three crucial contingencies are: the ineffective natural contingency, the effective, indirect-acting performance-management contingency, and the effective, direct-acting theoretical contingency.

Physical prompt

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The trainer physically moves the trainee's body in an approximation of the desired response.

Threshold

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The term threshold has been used in the text to refer to the magnitude of an eliciting stimulus which is just sufficient to elicit the reflex. The term threshold is widely used in the literature of ...

Memory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The term MEMORY arises when an environmental event at a given time results in an organism behaving differently at a later time. In everyday psychology the later behaviour is then attributed to the ...