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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A consequence that occurs just as a response is being completed or just after it has been completed. To be immediate the consequence must occur before a second response is made. Immediate feedback ...

expectancy

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A colloquial term referring to behavior that precedes a predictable event. Expectancy depends on a history with respect to that event (it cannot depend on an event that has not yet occurred).

higher-order class of behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A class that includes within it other classes that can themselves function as operant classes, as when generalized imitation includes all the component imitations that could be separately reinforced. ...

free operant

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A class of responses that are a function of a class of consequent stimuli (i.e., not under discriminative control).

experimental question

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A brief but specific statement of what the researcher wants to learn from conducting the experiment.

inferential statistics

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A body of mathematical data analysis procedures used to determine the likelihood that the effects of the experimental condition occurred by chance or to further support an alternate conclusion. In ...

internal validity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) When many extraneous variables are ruled out by an experimental design, the research has high internal validity. That is, changes in the dependent variable may be reasonably attributed to changes ...