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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Simultaneous comparison

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A concurrent comparison of data from control and experimental conditions across subjects, response classes, or setting.

Organism

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A complex life form carrying on the functions of life by means of separate but interdependent organs or systems

1) A multiple schedule is two or more basic schedules (CRF, FR, FI, VI, VR) presented sequentially in which each link ends with primary reinforcement (or in some cases extinction) and the component ...

Social comparison

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A comparison of the performance of clients exposed to the intervention with an equivalent or "normal" group.

Sequential comparison

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A comparison of data from control and experimental conditions in which subjects contact one after exposure to the other.

Respondent extinction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Present the conditioned stimulus without pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus or with an already established conditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimulus will lose its eliciting power. ...

Selection by consequences

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Operant selection or the ontogenic analogue of phylogenic or Darwinian selection, expressed as an abbreviated form of the selection of behaviour by its consequences. In a more general sense, all ...