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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learned aversive condition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

(secondary or conditioned aversive condition). A stimulus, event, or condition that is an aversive condition because it has been paired with another aversive condition.

science of behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A comprehensive experimental approach to the study of the behavior of organisms. Primary objectives are the discovery of principles and laws that govern behavior, the extension of these ...

kinesis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

(plural. kineses). Undirected movement that depends on stimulus magnitude (as when the random movements of an insect larva increase with light and stop when it reaches the dark).

operant discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

(1) As operation--the differential reinforcement of a response with respect to a property of a stimulus (e.g., responses to a red key are reinforced; responses to a green key are not). (2) As ...

operant extinction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

(1) As operation. the withholding of a reinforcement previously contingent upon a response. (2) As process. the resulting decrease in probability or rate.

A respondent conditioning procedure that generates skeletal responses. For example, a key light is turned on a few seconds before grain is presented to a pigeon. After several pairings of key light ...

aggression

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A side effect of presenting aversive stimuli or removing positive reinforcers, which may generate responses that injure other organisms (e.g., biting) and/or increase the effectiveness with which ...