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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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concurrent-chain schedules
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Concurrent schedules in which the reinforcers are themselves schedules that operate separately and in the presence of different stimuli. For example, equal and independent concurrent VI VI ...
concurrent task method of teaching
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A simultaneous teaching method in which all or many subgroups, or tasks are taught concurrently, rather than joining or adding one link at a time, as in the serial methods of forward and backward ...
concurrent schedules of reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Two or more schedules of reinforcement (e.g., FR, VR, Fl, VI) are simultaneously available. Each alternative is associated with a separate schedule of reinforcement and the organism is free to ...
concurrent schedules
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Two or more schedules independently arranged but operating at the same time, reinforcements being set up by both.
datadatum
Psychology; Behavior analysis
any recorded information, usually in numerical form. Data is plural, datum is singular.
data
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The results of measurement, usually in quantified form. A single value is referred to as a datum.
