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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criterion

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The standard used to indicate when a behavioral goal has been reached; or the specification of an acceptable level of performance that a person is to achieve. Criteria are composed of behavioral ...

covert sensitization

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A variation of aversion therapy in which the paired events are imagined.

covert behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Behavior that can be observed only by the person performing it. 2) Private behavior (not visible to the outside observer).

The action taken by an individual in response to often powerful or perhaps troublesome control by another. When both individuals are able to arrange contingencies that strongly affect each other's ...

counterconditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The use of Pavlovian conditioning to undo the adverse effects of earlier conditioning.

counter

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus some dimension of which varies systematically with number of responses emitted, counted from the preceding reinforcement or some other marking event. FR + counter means reinforcement on FR ...

countability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A dimensional quantity reflecting the property of repeatability that refers to the occurrence of the event being measured and which is measured in terms of the cycle as the unit of measurement. Also ...