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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.

Contributors in Behavior analysis

Behavior analysis

peer-mediated strategy

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Method of training, supervising, and monitoring peers to serve as contingency managers, cotherapists, or tutors. Peers provide services directly.

replicative memory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Memory interpreted as the production of a copy of what is remembered.

unobtrusive assessment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measuring performance when the clients or subjects are not aware of the ongoing observation.

obtrusive assessment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measuring performance when the clients or subjects are aware of the ongoing observation.

reliable measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurement that remains consistent regardless of who does it and what conditions prevail when it is conducted. See also Reliability.

vaganotic measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurement in which units are defined in a way such that their meaning can vary within or across applications.

win-shift

Psychology; Behavior analysis

lose-stay or win-stay lose-shift. See STRATEGY.

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