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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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respondent generalization
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Respondent generalization occurs when an organism shows a conditioned response to values of the CS that have not been trained. For example, if a tone of 375 Hz is paired with food, a dog will ...
temporal conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Respondent conditioning in which a US is presented at regular intervals (e.g., every 10 minutes). Conditioning is said to have occurred when the CR tends to occur shortly before each US.
respondent discrimination
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Respondent discrimination occurs when an organism shows a conditioned response to one stimulus but not to other similar events. A discrimination procedure involves positive and negative conditioning ...
pain-elicited aggression
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Respondent aggression or attack elicited by an aversive event. The same as respondent aggression.
within session replication
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Repetition of the basic procedure used under control and experimental conditions throughout each session,
reproduction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Repetition of results, usually as a consequence of replication of procedures.
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