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 response-produced presentation of positive punishers or the termination of negative punishers (or, the response decrement or suppression that results). The terminology closely parallels that of ...

Reinforcement contingencies

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The reinforcement contingencies that an organism has been exposed to during its lifetime, including the resulting changes in behaviour due to such exposure.

Response competition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The reduction of one response by the time and/or effort involved in concurrent responding. The terminology distinguishes reductions directly caused by concurrent responding from those caused by the ...

Resurgence

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The reappearance, during extinction, of previously effective behavior.

Linguistics

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The study of language, usually divided into the topics of syntax or grammatical structure, semantics or meaning, and pragmatics or the functions of language. Psycholinguistics is a branch of ...

Methodology

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The study of experimental methods. Also used to refer to experimental methods themselves.

Law of exercise

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The statement, in earl accounts of learning, that repetition of a response contributes to its strength. The law has also been stated in terms of use and disuse. A more contemporary version states ...