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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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changeover delay
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A control procedure that is used to stop rapid switching between alternatives on concurrent schedules of reinforcement. The COD contingency stipulates that responses do not have an effect immediately ...
changeover
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The switching from one response to another, as when a pigeon in a two-key chamber moves from pecking the left key to pecking the right key.
chamber
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A space designed to minimize interference from stimuli (e.g., laboratory noises) irrelevant to experimental conditions, and including devices for recording behavior (see OPERANDUM) and presenting ...
chaining
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The result when one response* alters some of the variables which control another response. For example, the first number a student writes in solving a long division problem becomes part of the ...
chained schedules
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule in which responding under one stimulus on a given schedule is reinforced by the production of a second stimulus in the presence of which a response is reinforced on a second schedule with ...
chained schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A compound schedule in which a reinforcer is produced by the successive completion of two or more component schedules, each operating during a different stimulus. The equivalent arrangement with the ...
chained responses
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A sequence of responses in which one response produces conditions essential to the next, as in making the next response possible or more likely to be reinforced. Successive responses may or may not ...
