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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behavioral assessment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Behavioral assessment is used to depict, as validly, clearly, and objectively as possible, an individual's patterns of behavior. Specific measures are selected based on the behavior and its ...

1) Behavior that a particular person has emitted in the past. It has been shaped, or, if it has been extinguished, it may be rapidly reconditioned (Catania, 1968). 2) All the things an individual is ...

avoidance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Any behavior that prevents a negative reinforcer from occurring. 2) The prevention of an aversive stimulus by a response. In deletion procedures, the response cancels presentations of the aversive ...

baseline

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A stable and, usually, recoverable performance upon which effects of experimental variables are superimposed (e.g., a drug effect may be expressed as the change produced in baseline response rate ...

alternative schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule in which a response is reinforced when either of two (or more) schedule requirements is satisfied (e.g., in alternative FR 10 Fl 60-s, the tenth response or the first response after 1 ...

backward chaining

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A method used to train a chained performance. The basic idea is to first train behavior that is closest to primary reinforcement; once responding is established, links in the chain that are ...

behavioral principles

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Lawful relations between behavior and the variables that control it, discovered through experimental analyses of behavior. Behavioral principles may help to explain prior and present performance and ...