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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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abulia
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A non-technical term which describes an organism whose performances are occurring at a low frequency because the number of performances required for reinforcement is too high. It is defined as the ...
bite
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A deviation from a smooth curve consisting of a period of relatively slow responding followed more or less abruptly by a compensatory increase in rate which restores the curve to the extrapolation of ...
body-weight
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A collateral effect of a schedule of food deprivation used as a check upon such a schedule. It is usually measured immediately prior to an experimental session. A fairly constant body-weight from day ...
autocorrelation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A description of data that indicates the extent to which values in one subset of a series predict values of another subset. Also referred to as serial dependency.
baseline condition
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A condition or phase of an experiment in which the independent variable, is not present. Also called the control condition.
accidental reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A coincidence of a response and a reinforcing event (e.g., in certain programs designed to establish a discrimination, the appearance of the discriminative stimulus may coincide with a response in ...
behavior trapping
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The teaching of new behavior that, once established, is "trapped" by natural contingencies of reinforcement. 2) The procedure of bringing a target behavior under the influence of its natural ...
