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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Reprimand

Psychology; Behavior analysis

To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by making disapproval contingent on the target behavior.

Sd/cs test

Psychology; Behavior analysis

To determine if a stimulus is an SD or a CS. look at its history of conditioning. Look for a plausible US ( UR relation; and alternatively. Look for a plausible SD.

Outcome variables

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Those "bottomline" measurable factors that characterise the outcome goal, such as annual profit, and improved academic and social performance.

The rate of one event (especially a response or a reinforcer) as a proportion of the summed rates of that and other events (e.g., given the rates of A and of B, the relative rate of A is calculated ...

Regression

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The reappearance of previously extinguished behaviour during the extinction of more recently reinforced behavior.

Terminal link

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The rate reached on the fixed schedules at the moment of reinforcement.

Operational statement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The product of breaking down a broad concept, such as "aggressiveness," into its observable and reliably measurable component behaviours (frequency of hitting or biting others, duration of scream, ...