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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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Squaring a multiple-baseline graph
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Involves squaring the condition containing the largest value of the ordinate and applying that scale to the graphs for all baselines. A condition is defined as beginning with the introduction of the ...
Maintenance training
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Intervention procedures that increase the likelihood that changes in a target behaviour will persist when the intervention is ended.
Private events
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In verbal behavior, events accessible only to the speaker (usually, events inside the skin). Private events have the same physical status as public events, but it is more difficult for the verbal ...
Vaganotic measurement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Measurement in which units are defined in a way such that their meaning can vary within or across applications.
Set
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Loosely, a disposition to respond. The term may refer to stereotyped patterns of operant behaviour (especially under stimulus control) or to effects of the conditional stimuli of a conditional ...
Phylogenic constraints
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Limitations on learning or differential capacities for learning that depend on phylogenic selection, including properties of the behaviour classes that can be produced and limits on the contingencies ...
