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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Replicate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

To repeat or duplicate an experimental procedure, usually to demonstrate its reliability by reproducing the results. See also Systematic replication.

Rule-governed analogue

Psychology; Behavior analysis

To reinforcement by the presentation of a reinforcer. An increase in the likelihood of a response because of a rule stating the occasions when the response will produce a reinforcer.

Reinforce

Psychology; Behavior analysis

To reinforce is to follow a performance with a reinforcing stimulus. Such a procedure may or may not increase the frequency of the performance, depending upon collateral conditions.

Schedules of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The ways in which reinforcement is contingent on behaviour or, to put it another way, the rules that tell which responses are reinforced.

Toothpaste

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Theory of abnormal behavior. Abnormal behaviour flows out of sick people like toothpaste squeezed from a tube. The abnormal behaviour results from inner pressure.