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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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bias
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A systematic error in measurement (e.g., if a device cannot record all responses when they follow each other rapidly, data recorded with the device will be biased toward low response rates). For ...
biofeedback
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Feedback based upon physiological measures (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension). See feedback.
antecedent events
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Environmental events or stimuli that occur immediately before a response. Used generically when it is not certain what function the event serves.
attention
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Discriminative responding based on some stimulus or stimulus property. An organism is said to attend to a stimulus or stimulus property when variation of that stimulus or stimulus property changes ...
backward chaining procedure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Effecting the development of a behavioral chain of responses by reinforcing the last response, element, or link in the chain first; the last two next, and so on, until the entire chain is emitted as ...
