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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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conjunctive schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A schedule in which a response is reinforced when each of two (or more) schedule requirements is satisfied (e.g., in conj FR 10 Fl 60-s, a response is reinforced only after at least 9 other ...
conjugate reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcement in which some property of a reinforcer varies systematically with some property of responding (e.g., as when the sharpness of focus of a reinforcing visual stimulus increases with the ...
conjoint schedules
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Two or more component schedules, usually involving different reinforcers, operating for a single response (e.g., lever-presses simultaneously are reinforced according to an FR schedule and postpone ...
confound (to confound) variables
Psychology; Behavior analysis
To change or allow to change two or more independent variables at the same time so you cannot determine what variables are responsible for the change in the dependent variable.
conflict
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A situation involving any of the following. A single response produces both a reinforcer and a punisher (approach-avoidance conflict); two or more incompatible responses each produce a different ...
conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The process of changing a behavior that involves interactions between responses and environmental events whose effects depend upon the processes of reinforcement. 2) The strengthening of a ...
