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 dimensions

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurable descriptive characteristics (Parameters) that qualify particular aspects of the performance, such as frequency, rate, intensity, duration, topography, and accuracy.

backup reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcer that may be received in exchange for a token. (See token economy.)

behavior analysis procedures or strategies

Interventions or treatments used to induce behavioral change. Behavioral procedures, or strategies, are used to occasion, teach, maintain, increase, extend, restrict, inhibit, or reduce behaviors. ...

asymptote

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Maximal level of responding. Often used in describing rate and level of learning in respondent conditioning in which a brief CS presentation is followed by the US after some fixed, extended time ...

concurrent operants

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Two or more classes of alternative responses. Concurrent operants may be compatible (as when a rat simultaneously presses one lever with its left paw and another with its right) or incompatible ...