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

Stereotyped behaviour that reliably occurs late in interstimulus intervals in superstition procedures or temporal conditioning, and usually related topographically to the behaviour produced by the ...

Principle of immediacy

Psychology; Behavior analysis

States that the more immediate the delivery of the reinforcer after the occurrence of the behavior, the more effective the reinforcer. To decide whether this principle has been followed, ask the ...

Principle of deprivation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

States that the more deprived a person is of a certain reinforcer, the more effective that reinforcer will be. To decide whether the principle has been followed, ask "Has the reinforcer been ...

Mythical cause of poor self-management

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Poor self management results from control by immediate outcomes and not by delayed outcomes. So we fail to act in our long-run best interest.

Phylogenetic history

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Phylogenetic history refers to the evolutionary history of the species in which the survival of individuals with particular genetic features produces a selection of genetic patterns. Thus, the ...

Role-playing

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Performance of a sequence of responses to simulate the action of another individual or the same individual under other circumstances. A method of behavioural rehearsal.