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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component

Psychology; Behavior analysis

one of the schedules, or the stimulus associated with it, in a compound schedule. The term is usually restricted to cases in which the individual schedules making up the compound schedule operate ...

complex behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behavior consisting of two or more subsets of responses. (Almost all the kinds of behavior with which applied behavior analysts are concerned are complex.)

complete measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurement in which some dimensional quantity of the complete population of responses is detected.

competency-based instruction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any method of teaching set up to help each student reach objectives that are specified behavioral , The behaviors required are called competencies.

compensatory rate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A higher than normal rate following one lower than normal, tending to restore the over-all rate to an earlier value. Also a lower than normal rate following a higher than normal one with the same ...

comparison design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

is an experimental design in which just baseline and treatment conditions are examined. Its weakness is that it doesn't rule out alternative explanations of an effect.

Behavior reinforced through the mediation of other people. Using words and other forms of symbolic communication enables us to attain reinforcement more efficiently. A term used in place of Skinner's ...