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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Variability generated by a process that produces events completely independent of one another, in the sense that none can be predicted from any of the others. It is a property of a distribution of ...

variable-interval responding.

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Variable -interval schedules produce a moderate rate of responding, with almost no postreinforcement pausing.

true values

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Values of the selected dimensional quantities that resulted from the operation of the transducer and for which extraordinary precautions have been taken to insure that all possible sources of error ...

observed values

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Values of the selected dimensional quantities that result from the operation of the transducer.

reaction time

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Usually equivalent to latency.

storage

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In the memory metaphor of storage and retrieval, what the learner does when something to be remembered is presented. Some of the behavior relevant to the stimulus that occurs at or after storage has ...

retrieval

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In the memory metaphor of storage and retrieval, what the learner does at the time something is remembered. Retrieval is typically occasioned by a discriminative stimulus that sets the occasion for ...