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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count

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A brief form of reference to countability. Also some times called frequency, especially in statistics.

The repetition or continuation of experimental conditions and/or stimuli after given responses or after their absence (especially, in a discrete-trial simultaneous discrimination, after errors). For ...

coordinate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The value of a point plotted on a graph. In a two-dimensional system, the value plotted along the x-axis is called the abscissa and that plotted along the y-axis is called the ordinate; the terms do ...

cooperative learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Interdependent and/or dependent group contingencies arranged to promote peer influence. Group members share their reinforcers. (Pg. 12) Correspondence training--delivering reinforcers contingent on ...

controlling stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus or event that sets the occasion for operant behavior. An SD increases the probability of response, and an S^ makes responding less likely.

control group

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A group of subjects not exposed to the presumed crucial value of the independent variable. 2) Those subjects who are exposed to control or nonexperimental conditions so as to provide a basis for ...

control condition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A condition not containing the presumed crucial value of the independent variable. 2) A condition or phase of an experiment in which the independent variable is not present. Also called the ...