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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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Behavior analysis
Session
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Experimental period. The period during which an organism is exposed to experimental conditions, usually once per day.
Magazine training
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Establishing an association (in time) between stimuli that precede reinforcement and the reinforcing event. For example, a rat is placed in an operant chamber and a microcomputer periodically turns ...
Phylogenetic behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Environment-behavior relations that are based on the evolutionary history of a species are called phylogenetic. The reflex is one instance of phylogenetic behavior. Species history provides the ...
Retroaction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Effects of learning at one time on other learning that occurred earlier. When the earlier learning is impaired, the effect is a variety of negative transfer called retroactive inteiftrence or ...
Ontogenetic behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Each organism has a unique life history that contributes to its behavior. Ontogenetic behaviour is due to events that occur over the lifetime of an individual. Ontogenetic history builds on species ...
Schedule-induced behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Displacement behaviour is observed in the natural environment and is characterised as irrelevant, incongruous, or out of context. The activity of the animal does not make sense given the situation, ...
Working memory
Psychology; Behavior analysis
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 ...
