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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Learning set

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Or learning-to-learn. A case of transfer in which, on the basis of similar relations among stimuli in a sequence of discrimination problems, accuracy in later problems improves more rapidly over ...

Deliberate withholding of attention, verbal interaction, and physical contact for a short duration as a consequence of an infraction. A mild form of timeout in that the opportunity to obtain various ...

Motor programmes

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Coordinations that do not depend on response feedback (e.g., in producing a phoneme, movements of lungs, vocal chords, tongue, and lips must be separately initiated at different times; thus, their ...

Temporal integration

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Control of behaviour by the distribution of events in time. behaviour can be affected by events extended over some time, and recent events may weigh more heavily than those further in the past. The ...

Water magazine

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The term magazine refers to a mechanical device containing a supply of food which can be delivered in small portions to the organism. 2) A mechanical device which makes food, water, etc., ...

Serial-position effect

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Differential recall of an item depending on its position in a list, especially in free recall. An early item is more likely to be recalled than a later one (primacy), and a very recent item is more ...

Metacognition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Differentiation and discrimination of one's own cognitive processes (as in shifting attention among tasks, or distinguishing between seeing something and just imagining it).