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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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single-subject research
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Experimental research that is concerned with discovering principles and conditions that govern the behavior of single organisms. Each individual's behavior is studied to assess the impact of a given ...
session
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Experimental period. The period during which an organism is exposed to experimental conditions, usually once per day.
magazine training
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Establishing an association (in time) between stimuli that precede reinforcement and the reinforcing event. For example, a rat is placed in an operant chamber and a microcomputer periodically turns ...
phylogenetic behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Environment-behavior relations that are based on the evolutionary history of a species are called phylogenetic. The reflex is one instance of phylogenetic behavior. Species history provides the ...
overgeneralization
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Emitting a response appropriate to some contexts in an inappropriate context. For example, calling all men "dada." 15, 29
schedule effects
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Effects on behavior which are due to the schedule of reinforcement the individual is on rather than to other factors which affect behavior, such as quantity or quality of reinforcement, deprivation ...
proaction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Effects of learning at one time on other learning that occurs later. When the later learning is impaired, the effect is a variety of negative transfer called proactive interference or proactive ...
