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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conditioned suppression

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reduction in rate in the presence of a previously neutral stimulus which has characteristically preceded an aversive event. (E.g., a 3-minute tone which has repeatedly been followed by a strong ...

conditioned stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A stimulus that acquires its eliciting properties through previous pairing with another stimulus. 2) A stimulus which acquires the property of eliciting a previously unconditioned response is ...

conditioned response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A learned response elicited by the presentation of a conditioned stimulus. 2) Responses in which the class of eliciting stimuli has acquired this function because of a history of being paired ...

1) Any reinforcing event that loses its effectiveness permanently through unpaired presentations That is, the presentation of the event without its being associated with any other reinforcers!. It ...

conditioned reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A hypothesis suggesting that a stimulus will become a conditioned reinforcer if it provides information about the occurrence of primary reinforcement. This notion has been largely discounted and ...

conditioned reflex or conditional reflex

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reflex produced by a contingent relation between stimuli (see contingency). One stimulus, originally neutral, sets the occasion for presenting a second stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus. A ...