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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continuous measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurement in which all possible responses can be detected during observation periods.

continuous behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A response that does not have a clearly discriminable beginning or end. Pouting, smiling, eye contact, and other behaviors often are treated as continuous responses because determining when the ...

contingent stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus the presentation of which depends on a response-stimulus contingency.

contingent relation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The relation between a behavior and its antecedents and/or consequences.

contingent observation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reductive procedure that contains elements of timeout. The individual, located few feet away from the reinforcing activity is close enough to observe the activity, but not to participate in it. ...

contingent exertion

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Physical exertion or effort required as a consequence of a misbehavior. An aspect of certain reductive procedures, such as overcorrection and contingent exercise.

flooding

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A form of desensitization training in which the client is exposed to real or imagined situations that are very disturbing until they no longer arouse anxiety. The procedure typically causes great ...