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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Reversible effects

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Changes in performances that are eliminated, either immediately or over some time, when the operations that produced them are discontinued (e.g., if responding returns to earlier levels after ...

Reinforcers

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Can also be defined independently of their behavioural consequences. The effectiveness of a reinforcer depends on the relative probabilities of the responses it occasions and the responses to be ...

Brief expression for the number of responses already emitted in executing a ratio, especially as these function as stimuli. (E.g., "number as reinforcer" means that the accumulation of a number of ...

Negative automaintenance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Birds are autoshaped to peck a key, but in negative automaintenance food is not presented if the bird pecks the key. This is also called omission training because food reinforcement is omitted if key ...

Legal rule control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Control by rules specifying added analogues to behavioural contingencies and added direct-acting behavioural contingencies based on material outcomes.

Maintenance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Continuation of the conditions that generated a performance. The analysis of maintained performance, as a subject matter, is different from but not incompatible with that of acquisition (e.g., many ...

Problem solving

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Constructing discriminative stimuli, either overfly or covertly, in situations involving novel contingencies; these stimuli may set the occasion for effective behaviour (as when a verbal problem is ...