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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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Artificial discriminative stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A prompt or discriminative stimulus that is not usually present in the environment. Because an artificial stimulus is intrusive, it should be faded or gradually eliminated before the learner has been ...
Attitude
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A predisposition to behave in a certain way . A positive attitude toward science is a predisposition to behave in certain ways regarding science, including saying certain kinds of things, spending ...
Advocate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A person or group serving to protect a client's interests, not one who is employed as an agent of other individuals, an organization, or institution. Advocates, who may be community representatives ...
Absolute unit
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A unit of measurement whose value is defined in a fixed or unvarying manner independently of the phenomenon being measured.
Autoclitic
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A unit of verbal behaviour that depends on other verbal behaviour for its occurrence and that modifies the effects of that other verbal behaviour on the listener. Descriptive autoclitics involve ...
Applied behaviour analysis programme
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A systematic approach to analysing and changing behavior. The programme essentially incorporates the full behaviour analysis model (see Figure 1.1). It entails establishment of behavioural ...
