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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priming

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Presenting a stimulus that affects behavior after the stimulus is removed (as when the brief presentation of one word lowers the recognition threshold of a semantically related word presented later).

respondent reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Presenting a conditioned and an unconditioned stimulus at approximately the same time. See also contingency, differential reinforcement, intermittent reinforcement, continuous reinforcement, etc.

within phase replication

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Presentation of the same condition many times in succession throughout a phase.

scallop

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Positively accelerated portion of the cumulative record, usually used in speaking of interval or ratio segments.

real cause of poor self-management

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Poor self-management results from poor control by rules describing outcomes that are either too small (though often of cumulative significance) or too improbable. The delay isn't crucial.

mythical cause of poor self-management

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Poor self management results from control by immediate outcomes and not by delayed outcomes. So we fail to act in our long-run best interest.

phylogenetic history

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Phylogenetic history refers to the evolutionary history of the species in which the survival of individuals with particular genetic features produces a selection of genetic patterns. Thus, the ...