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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Ethical rule control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Control by rules specifying added analogues to behavioural contingencies. Such rules specify social, religious, or supernatural outcomes.

Moral rule control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Control by rules specifying added analogues to behavioural contingencies. Such rules specify social, religious, or supernatural outcomes.

Differentiation and discrimination of one's own remembering (as when keeping track of a constantly changing list of items in running or working memory, or judging whether some material just studied ...

Temporal discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Discrimination based on temporal properties of stimuli (i.e., stimulus duration), often appealed to in accounts of spaced responding. For example, if a response is more likely to be emitted at 10 s ...

Relational discrimination or relational learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Discrimination based on relational rather than absolute properties of stimuli (e.g., to the left of or to the right of; same or different; greater than or less than; see also TCHING TO-SAMPLE).

Primacy

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 ...

Single-subject research

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Experimental research that is concerned with discovering principles and conditions that govern the behaviour of single organisms. Each individual's behaviour is studied to assess the impact of a ...