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 degree to which an individual agrees to pursue a behavioural goal or programme in the absence of coercion. Voluntaries is assumed when the individual chooses and/or initiates action toward a goal ...

Research design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The arrangement of the various conditions of an experiment or intervention to reduce the confounding of independent variables.

Level of processing

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The abstractness or richness of coding (e.g., encoding the number 2001 as a year or as the title of a film involves deeper levels of processing than encoding it as an arbitrary sequence of four ...

Stimulus equation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Temporarily eliminating the irrelevant dimensions of complex stimuli, leaving only the critical dimensions in order to facilitate discrimination.

Tangible reinforcers

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Tangible items (magazines, jewelry, toys, cars, and so on) the contingent delivery of which increases or maintains a behavior.

Movement cycle

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The complete sequence of the components of a response from the beginning to the end.

Verbal community

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The contingencies that regulate verbal behaviour arise from the practises of people in the verbal community. The verbal community refers to the customary ways that people reinforce the behaviour of a ...