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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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Sequential dependencies
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Conditional probabilities of successive events (e.g., given concurrent responses A and B, the probabilities of A followed by A, A followed by B, B followed by A, and B followed by B).
Operationally defined
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Colloquial psychological terms that are broken down into measurable components.
Teaching
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Changing behavior. Helping others to learn, or to learn faster, or more efficiently than they would on their own. Teaching may be intentional or unintentional.
Rate dependency
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Changes in the magnitude and perhaps direction of effect of a variable that depend on baseline response rate, especially in reference to drug effects (e.g., as when some drug dose increases low ...
Overgeneralization
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Emitting a response appropriate to some contexts in an inappropriate context. For example, calling all men "dada." 15, 29
Schedule effects
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Effects on behaviour which are due to the schedule of reinforcement the individual is on rather than to other factors which affect behavior, such as quantity or quality of reinforcement, deprivation ...
Proaction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Effects of learning at one time on other learning that occurs later. When the later learning is impaired, the effect is a variety of negative transfer called proactive interference or proactive ...
