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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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.

Win-shift

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Lose-stay or win-stay lose-shift. See STRATEGY.

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 ...