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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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Psychophysics
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An area of psychology that evolved out of the philosophical concern with the relation between mind and body. Psychophysics relates behavioural properties of stimuli to properties defined in physical ...
Nonsense syllable
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An arbitrary sequence of letters, usually a CVC trigram, that is not a word. Nevertheless, nonsense syllables can vary in meaningfulness (e.g., the close resemblance of LUQ to LUCK may make it more ...
Repeated measures design
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An approach to arranging comparisons between control and experimental conditions in which subject's behaviour is often measured many times under each condition before contacting the next condition. ...
Jumping stand
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An apparatus used to study discrimination, especially with rats. The rat is forced to jump from platform to one of two doors on which stimuli are displayed. One door is unlocked, and by jumping to it ...
Multimedia maze
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An apparatus through which an organism locomotes, usually from a startbox to a goalbox that contains some reinforcer such as food, and often including alternative paths that divide at choice-points ...
Signal detection analysis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An analysis of stimulus delectability in terms of conditional probabilities of a response given a signal in noise or noise alone. A response to a signal in noise is a correct detection, or a hit, and ...
Stimulus substitution
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An account of respondent conditioning, no longer widely accepted, stating that the CS becomes a substitute for the US. But a CR is not simply a UR now elicited by a new stimulus; one of several ...
