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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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conclusions from yoking must be cautiously drawn
Psychology; Behavior analysis
For example, assume two types of rats equally distributed among groups in a yoking experiment on the role of avoidance in shock induced ulcers. Sensitive types are prone to ulcers when shocked; they ...
conceptual stimulus control
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Responding occurs more often in the presence of one stimulus class and less often in the presence of another stimulus class because of concept training.
concept training
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcing or punishing a response in the presence of one stimulus class and extinguishing it or allowing it to recover in the presence of another stimulus class.
concept formation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The formation of a discrimination based on a class of stimuli such that an organism generalizes among all stimuli within the class but discriminates them from those in other classes. Such classes ...
concept
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A property or set of properties of stimuli. For example, the concept "red" is a property shared by all of the things we call "red." 2) One or a set of abstract critical properties common among a ...
computer assisted or aided instruction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Instruction aided by computer technology. Computers may present curriculum, request student responses and provide feedback and reinforcement. They may permit responses to be analyzed immediately, and ...
compound schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule in which two or more individual schedules are combined. The components may operate successively in alternation (multiple and mixed) or as a sequence (chained and tandem), or simultaneously ...
