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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interval recording

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A strategy used in applied behavior analysis to assess the rate of target behavior. A block of time is selected and divided into short-equal intervals, and if the target behavior occurs it is ...

experimental analysis of behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A scientific method designed to discover the functional relation between behavior and the variables that control it. 2) The method of investigation most commonly used in behavior analysis. The ...

interlocking schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule of intermittent reinforcement in which the reinforcement is determined by two schedules, where the setting of one schedule is altered by progress made in the other. (E.g., in the ...

fixed ratio

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule in which people are reinforced for making a response only after they have made a fixed number of those responses without reinforcement. This schedule usually causes people to pause ...

1) A reference to (a) countability or count, especially in statistics or (b) rate, especially in the natural sciences. 2) The number of times a behavior occurs. Often expressed as rate-that is, in ...

extinction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A procedure in which the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued. Also may be used to describe the "process" by which a previously learned behavior disappears as a result ...

intrinsic motivation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A hypothesized state inferred by observing an individual expressing a particular behavior at high rates in the absence of any identifiable external reinforcing consequences; presumably, emitting ...