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

1) A relationship between a class of responses and a class or classes of stimuli. Implies nothing about the nature of the relationship or its effects. 2) A dependency or a causal relationship. 3) In ...

contingencies of survival

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The contingencies that regulate natural selection. The habitat or environment sets requirements for the survival of individuals. Members of a species who exhibit features appropriate to the ...

contingencies

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The specified dependencies between behavior and its antecedents and consequences. Contingencies can occur naturally or can be managed intentionally by presenting, withdrawing, or withholding stimuli ...

contiguity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) In respondent conditioning, contiguity refers to the temporal pairing of CS and US. 2) The juxtaposition of two or more events, especially in the case of their occurrence simultaneously or very ...

context of behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The ontogenetic and phylogenetic history of an organism plus the contextual stimuli that are present when conditioning occurs.

context

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The constant features of an experimental situation (e.g., the chamber within which an operant session occurs). Experimental contexts may acquire behavioral function, especially because they are ...