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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

orienting response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In operant behavior, a response that puts an organism in a position to entitle other responses or that allows it to attend to a discriminative stimulus . In respondent behavior, a response elicited ...

sensitivity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In most behavioral usages, a measure of threshold (the organism's capacity to respond differentially to different stimuli or conditions.)

sample-specific behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In matching-to sample, differential responding to each sample stimulus, usually introduced to ensure sample stimulus control. For example, pigeon matching-to-sample may be arranged with a ...

two-factor theory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In general, any behavioral theory involving the interaction of operant and respondent processes; more specifically, an avoidance theory stating that avoidance responses are operants reinforced by ...

neuropharmacology

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In errorless discrimination, the trainer does not allow the organism to make mistakes by responding to the extinction stimulus. Initially SD and SI are very different, but differences between the ...

post reinforcement pause

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In conditioned suppression, a previously neutral stimulus (e.g., tone, light, etc.) is paired with an aversive US such as an electric shock. After several pairings, the originally neutral stimulus ...

schema

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In cognition, an organized representation of events, especially in complex contexts (e.g., spatial schemas relating lengths, areas, and volumes, or social ones arranged in scripts, scenarios, and ...

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