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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retroaction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Effects of learning at one time on other learning that occurred earlier. When the earlier learning is impaired, the effect is a variety of negative transfer called retroactive inteiftrence or ...

Each organism has a unique life history that contributes to its behavior. Ontogenetic behavior is due to events that occur over the lifetime of an individual. Ontogenetic history builds on species ...

operandum test

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Does the SD differ from the operandum?

schedule-induced behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Displacement behavior is observed in the natural environment and is characterized as irrelevant, incongruous, or out of context. The activity of the animal does not make sense given the situation, ...

working memory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Differentiation and discrimination of one's own remembering (as when keeping track of a constantly changing list of items in running or working memory, or judging whether some material just studied ...

temporal discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Discrimination based on temporal properties of stimuli (i.e., stimulus duration), often appealed to in accounts of spaced responding. For example, if a response is more likely to be emitted at 10 s ...

relational discrimination or relational learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Discrimination based on relational rather than absolute properties of stimuli (e.g., to the left of or to the right of; same or different; greater than or less than; see also TCHING TO-SAMPLE).