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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response delay

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A procedure in which the reinforcer is delivered contingent on a preset time intervening between the SD and the response. Response delay helps to manage impulsiveness (e.g., SD = "Keep worldng" ...

A form of modeling in which trainees are shown videotaped segments of the best samples of their own behavior; external prompts and flawed examples are edited out. Self-modeling is designed to prompt ...

self-reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A misnomer for the delivery of a reinforcer to oneself based on one's own behavior. In so-called self-reinforcement, the contingencies and establishing operations that affect the behavior that is ...

stimulus class

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A collection of individual stimuli that are functionally related to a response class. 2) A set of stimuli, all of which have some common property. 3) A set of related stimuli. 4) Stimuli that ...

operant

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A class of responses defined by a functional relation with a class of common environmental effects. 2) A class of responses. Responses are assigned to classes because no two can be exactly the ...

systematic desensitization

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A behavioral technique used to treat phobias based on principles of classical conditioning. The first step in the procedure is to teach the client to relax; then a fear hierarchy is constructed. ...