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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fine-grain repertoire

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A fine-grain repertoire refers to an operant performance which changes under the control of small variations in the stimulus. Examples of this are drawing from copy or steering a car. The phrase, ...

indirect-acting contingency

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A contingency that controls the response, but not because the outcome reinforces or punishes that response.

ineffective contingency

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A contingency that does not control behavior.

functional response class definition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A definition of a response class that is based on the functional relations between its responses and classes of antecedent and consequent environmental events.

imitative prompt

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A discriminative stimulus consisting of a behavior that is modeled in order to occasion an imitative response.

event recorder

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A device that produces one or more time lines along which the timing of events is recorded (e.g., by displacement of a marker or pen that draws a line at a constant rate).

A class the members of which have common behavioral functions, either produced by sin-dlar histories or acquired through emergent relations. If two stimuli are members of a functional class, then the ...