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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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Physical guidance
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A form of response priming in which the appropriate body part or parts are physically guided through the proper motion by another person. For example, a swimming coach guiding the movement of a ...
Run of responses
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A fast burst of responding. For example, after the postreinforcement pause on a fixed-ratio schedule, an organism will rapidly emit the responses required by the ratio.
Predictive stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A discriminative stimulus. A stimulus predicts an event if the probability of the event given the stimulus differs from that without the stimulus.
Preference
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) When several schedules of reinforcement are available concurrently, one alternative may be chosen more frequently than others. When this occurs, it is called preference for an alternative source ...
Verbal behaviour
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Verbal behaviour refers to the vocal, written, and gestural performances of a speaker, writer, or communicator. This behaviour operates on the listener, reader, or observer, who arranges for ...
Record
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Used in speaking of the present figures to identify a portion representing either a whole session or part of a session, as distinct from curve, excursion, etc. 2) Some portion of the data from a ...
Systematic replication
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) To repeat or duplicate experimental findings despite varying a number of conditions, such as task, setting or other parameters of the basic procedures. 2) A way to increase the generality of an ...
