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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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Maintenance procedures
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Strategies used to promote the persistence of behaviours under natural environmental conditions, such as alterations in reinforcing contingencies, fading prompts, and teaching self-management.
Strain
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Strain is a term used to describe the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is reinforced on a large fixed ratio schedule. Under most conditions, strain occurs between ...
Natural selection
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The Darwinian account of evolution in terms of the selection of members of a population over generations. Different features survive in a population as a result of interactions between the range of ...
Specification
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The correspondence between a verbal response and what it tacts, when the verbal response occurs outside of the tact relation (as when a mand is said to specify its reinforcer even though the ...
Performance maintenance
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The continuing of performance after it was first established.
Mediation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The contribution of intervening behaviour to the relation between other events (as when coding mediates between the presentation of an item and its recall). For operant examples, see MEDIATING ...
Recovery from punishment
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Stopping the punishment or penalty contingency for a previously punished response causes the response rate to increase to its rate before the punishment or penalty contingency.
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