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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Behavior analysis

A system of controlling frequency of reinforcement as one variable in experiments on ratio schedules. Reinforcements are "set up" in one box whenever they are set up in another on a ratio schedule. ...

Paradigm

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A symbolic representation of relations. For example, a three-term contingency in which a response (R) produces a reinforcer (Rf) in the presence of a discriminative stimulus (SD) might be written as. ...

Verbal prompt

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A supplemental verbal stimulus that raises the probability of a correct response.

Thematic research

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A style of research in which experiments are designed so that they are related to other studies in specific ways.

Pilot research

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A style of research in which a study is primarily intended to test certain aspects of procedure before conducting a formal experiment.

Unconditioned respondent behaviour

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An autonomic response that requires no previous learning. Other respondent behaviour may be conditioned, as in Pavlov's famous experiments with the conditioning of dogs' salivation responses.