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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Sequence analysis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A description of an individual's behaviours and the events observed to precede and follow those behaviors. Used to provide clues about the possible functional properties of various antecedent and ...

A demonstration of competition between verbal and nonverbal responses to a verbal stimulus. It is difficult to name rapidly the different colours in which different colour words are printed if the ...

Operational definition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A definition in terms of the operations used to produce and measure a phenomenon. Especially associated with nonobservable constructs in an attempt to clarify their reference.

Stimulus change decrement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A decrease in response as a function of a change in STIMULI, probably due to fewer common stimuli or SDs being present.

Squaring a simple graph

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A a process performed by dividing the ordinate by the abscissa rounding the result up to the next whole number, and labelling the ordinate with numbers that increase in steps equal to the number.

Outcome recording

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A a method of observation in which a response occurrence is recorded if the result of a behavioural episode is observed.

Satiation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Any operation that changes the status of a stimulus as a reinforcer or punisher deprivation, satiation, procedures that establish formerly neutral stimuli as conditioned reinforcers or as ...