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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chunking

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The arbitrary creation of larger verbal units, as when a mnemonic system is used to convert a sequence of digits to a single word.

choice

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) From a behavioral view, choice concerns the distribution of operant behavior among alternative sources of reinforcement. 2) The emission of one of two or more alternative and, usually, ...

chaos

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A branch of mathematics dealing with nonlinear systems, which are drastically affected even by very small changes in their initial values (e.g., the flap of a butterfly's wings may be enough to ...

1) A research design primarily used in applied behavior analysis. The rate of target behavior is progressively changed to some new criterion (up or down). For example, the criterion for the number of ...

changeover response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

On a concurrent schedule, the response that an organism en-dts when it switches from one alternative to another. See also Findley procedure.

changeover ratio

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A changeover contingency that provides that no response can be reinforced until some minimum number of responses has occurred since the last changeover.

change-over delay

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A change in the rate of one response that occurs when either the rate of a second response or the reinforcement rate produced by that response is changed in the Opposite direction, where the ...