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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Respondent aggression

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Aggression elicited by the presentation of an aversive event. The same as pain-elicited aggression.

Accidental reinforcement describes a coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer. Even though there is no intentional connexion between the organism's performance and the reinforcer, there is ...

Narrative recording

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A written description of behaviour in progress. The recorded events then can be ordered into a sequence analysis that specifies a behavior, its antecedents, and its consequences.

Multiple-baseline designs

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A within-subject or intensive experimental design that attempts to replicate the effects of a procedure (treatment or intervention) across (1) different subjects, (2) different settings, or (3) ...

Self-desensitization

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A variation of systematic desensitisation in which the client conducts the treatment without the aid of a therapist.

Module

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A unit of instruction, often consisting of a pretest, instructional materials, and a posttest.

Prototype

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A typical member of a probabilistic class, described by a weighted average of all features of all members of the class (e.g., feathers are weighted more heavily than webbed feet among birds because ...