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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maintenance procedures

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Strategies used to promote the persistence of behaviors under natural environmental conditions, such as alterations in reinforcing contingencies, fading prompts, and teaching self-management.

Strain is a term used to describe the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is reinforced on a large fixed ratio schedule. Under most conditions, strain occurs between ...

natural consequences

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Stimulus changes which are produced by (and are dependent on) the behavior of the individual who experiences them. Natural consequences are contrasted with artificial or , by trinsic consequences, ...

recovery from punishment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Stopping the punishment or penalty contingency for a previously punished response causes the response rate to increase to its rate before the punishment or penalty contingency.

stereotyped behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Stereotyped behavior that reliably occurs late in interstimulus intervals in superstition procedures or temporal conditioning, and usually related topographically to the behavior produced by the ...

principle of immediacy

Psychology; Behavior analysis

States that the more immediate the delivery of the reinforcer after the occurrence of the behavior, the more effective the reinforcer. To decide whether this principle has been followed, ask the ...

principle of deprivation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

States that the more deprived a person is of a certain reinforcer, the more effective that reinforcer will be. To decide whether the principle has been followed, ask "Has the reinforcer been ...