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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cuing

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus that has acquired its aversive properties because it has reliably accompanied another aversive stimulus (e.g., in discriminated avoidance, the warning stimulus may become a conditioned ...

cue

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus which sets the occasion for a particular response. The technical term for cue is discriminative stimulus (Sd or S^)

criticism trap

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A situation in which criticizing a behavior you dislike seems to work by temporarily stopping it, but which actually reinforces the behavior so that it occurs more often in the future, not less.

critical period

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The time during which a stimulus can become imprinted . More generally, any time period to which the operation of some behavioral process is limited.

critical features of stimuli

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The distinctive properties of stimuli, such as size, shape, position, and color, that enable one stimulus class to be discriminated from another. Stimuli that share a number of critical features ...

critical feature

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A feature, perhaps one of several, upon which the discrimination among stimulus classes depends (e.g., critical features of letters of the alphabet include straight vs. curved, open vs. closed, ...

criterion observer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The person whose recording serves as a standard against which other observers' are judged, especially during training technicians to become reliable data recorders.