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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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Behavior analysis

overmatching

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In the generalized matching equation, a value of a greater than 1 indicates that changes in the response ratio are larger than changes in the ratio of reinforcement. This outcome occurs because ...

symbolic behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In some usages, verbal behavior; in a fairly specialized usage, behavior the function of which has transferred from one stimulus to another by virtue of the membership of both stimuli in an ...

transduction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In scientific measurement, turning physical events impinging on the observational apparatus from the subject's behavior and its environment into a set of numerical data representing only those ...

serendipity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In science, the discovery of useful findings that were not being looked for.

theory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In science, a set of general or abstract principles based on experimentally established relationships among events used to explain a phenomenon.

sensory preconditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In respondent conditioning, a type of higher-order conditioning in which a contingent relation between two stimuli precedes making one of them a CS. Sensory preconditioning is said to have occurred ...

setup

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In reinforcement schedules (especially interval schedules), an arrangement that makes a response eligible to produce a reinforcer.

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