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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anxiety

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Anxiety is a descriptive term which refers to the changes in a performance produced by an aversive or preaversive stimulus. These changes include a decrease in the frequency of many operant ...

back-up reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An object or event that already has demonstrated its capability to reinforce an individual's behavior. It is received in exchange for a specific number of tokens, points, or other exchangeable ...

applied behavior analyst

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An individual who has demonstrated mastery of the professional competencies involved in assessing behavior and designing, implementing, evaluating, and communicating the results of an applied ...

alternating-treatments design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An experimental design in which the replications involve presenting the different values of the independent variable in an alternating sequence under the same general conditions or in the same ...

An equation for the single operant is called the quantitative law of effect. The equation relates absolute response and reinforcement rates, using alternative sources of reinforcement as the context. ...

box

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An experimental chamber containing the organism during an experiment, usually with some degree of sound and light shielding, and containing one or more manipulanda, reinforcing devices, and ...

behavioral dynamics

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An area of research that attempts to analyze schedule effects in terms of a few basic processes. Behavioral dynamics requires a high level of mathematical sophistication. Both linear and nonlinear ...