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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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availability
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In the metaphor of memory storage and retrieval, the status of an item that has been stored; if it is stored, it is said to be available whether or not it can be retrieved. Any retrieved item is ...
artificial selection
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In the Darwinian account of evolution, the variety of selection practiced by humans, in selective breeding in horticulture, animal husbandry, etc.
accessibility
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In the metaphor of memory storage and retrieval, the retrievability of a stored item; an item that is stored but not retrievable is said to be inaccessible.
alternative hypothesis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In contrast to the null hypothesis, a prediction that there are differences in between the populations of which the experimental and control groups are samples and that the differences are due to the ...
blocking
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An attenuation of respondent conditioning with one stimulus because of prior conditioning with another (e.g., if tone and bell together precede food after bell has become a CS, tone may remain ...
behavioral science
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In behavioral science the independent variable usually refers to events in the environment which the experimenter can manipulate and of which the behavior of the organism (the dependent variable) is ...
analog to avoidance principle
Psychology; Behavior analysis
If an indirect-acting contingency is to increase or maintain performance, it should be an analog to avoidance.
