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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behaviorism

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The philosophy of the science of human behavior. It is the position that we can study behavior scientifically and that we do so by finding the variables of which it is a function. Modern ...

behavioral contract

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The negotiated goals and procedures of a behavior analysis program, mutually agreed on by the client or advocate and other involved persons, and modifiable by joint agreement. Also called a ...

behavior modification

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Interventions that are designed to change behavior in a precisely measurable manner. Often used interchangeably with the terms applied behavior analysis and behavior therapy. However, applied ...

1) In the respondent procedure backward conditioning, the US comes on before the CS. The general consensus has been that backward conditioning is unreliable, and many researchers question whether it ...

behavioral contrast

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Contrast refers to a negative association between the response rates on the two components of a multiple schedule-as one goes up the other goes down. There are two forms of contrast, positive and ...

behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Everything that an organism does, including covert actions like thinking. 2) Anything a person does that can be observed. 3) Anything an organism does. Although the definition is too inclusive ...

behavior analysis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Behavior analysis is 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 ...