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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abscissa

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The horizontal or x-axis on a graph. In applied behavior analysis, the abscissa usually depicts successive trials or the passage of time, such as days.

A stimulus effective as a negative reinforcer or as a punisher, or that suppresses positively reinforced operant behavior during another stimulus that precedes it. A stimulus with any one of these ...

accuracy

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The extent to which observed values approximate the "true" state of nature.

adaptation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reduction, usually during the prolonged presentation of a stimulus, in the behavior produced by that stimulus (e.g., tation to an experimental chamber).

automaintenance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The maintenance of autoshaped responding by continuing contingent stimulus-reinforcer relations. In negative automaintenance, the contingent stimulus-reinforcer relation operates on trials without ...

believability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The extent to which the researcher can convince others to believe that the data represent what they are intended to represent and thus warrant interpretation, even though there is no unambiguous ...