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 process by which a new antecedent stimulus begins to evoke a response instead of a previous antecedent stimulus. In applied behaviour analysis this is often deliberately arranged by using fading or ...

Transition state

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A pattern of responding that involves a change from one steady state to a different steady state.

Timeout room

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A physical space that is arranged to minimise the reinforcement that an individual is apt to receive during a given time period. Sometimes referred to as timeout booth or quiet place. Procedures for ...

Peer review

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A panel of unbiased professional colleagues that reviews issues and methods related to programmes under review, and recommends any changes to enhance the quality of care and treatment of clients.

Reductive procedure

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A procedure, such as Alt-R, DRL, punishment, response cost, and timeout, used to reduce the rate of a behavior. Section IV

Time delay prompting

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A procedure, sometimes called progressive delay or delayed prompting, designed to teach a behaviour by interposing a time delay between the presentation of the natural and an artificial ...

Positive reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A procedure whereby the rate of a response maintains or increases as a function of the contingent presentation of a stimulus (a positive reinforcer) following the response.