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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Behavior analysis

Measures of variables that relate indirectly to changes in the target behavior. Included would be the impact on the "bottom line" as well as the unprogrammed spread of effect to other people, places ...

collateral behaviors

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behaviors not treated directly, yet whose rates may change as another behavior is directly treated. Also, behaviors, other than those intentionally treated, that n-tight be influenced by the ...

collateral behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Responding that, like mediating behavior, appears in a consistent sequential relation to reinforced behavior while not itself instrumental in producing the reinforcer. The term does not carry the ...

cognitive map

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A spatial schema or representation. In learning a coordinated set of spatial relations, an organism is sometimes said to be developing a cognitive map. The term is most likely to be invoked when the ...

cognition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Cognitive processes. knowing, and the ways in which it takes place. Processes said to be cognitive are often varieties of behavior that need not be manifested as movements and therefore must be ...

coding coding response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An inferred variety of mediating behavior, as when humans remember visually presented letters on the basis of sound rather than geometric properties, perhaps as a result of saying or subvocally ...

coercion

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Inducing a behavioral change toward an objective not wanted by the client through the use of threats, severely punitive contingencies, or disproportionately powerful incentives. As the value of ...