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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generalization gradient

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A gradient obtained after reinforcement correlated with a single stimulus (occasionally, in studies of the summation of gradients, two or more stimuli), when no discrimination has been trained ...

generalized learned reinforcer

(generalized secondary reinforcer or generalized conditioned reinforcer) A learned reinforcer that is a reinforcer because it was paired with a variety of other reinforcers when the organism has been ...

interpolated schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

(inter). A single block of reinforcements in one schedule is interpolated into a sustained period of responding on a different background schedule. (E.g., on FR 20 inter Fi 1 5, several ...

process goal

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A target, the accomplishment of which enables the achievement of an outcome goal. For example, increasing a teacher's rates of giving approval might be a process goal enabling the outcome goal of ...

genotype

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Genotype refers to the genetic make-up of the organism. Some observable characteristics are largely determined by genotype, other features are strongly influenced by experience, but most result from ...

goal-directed systems design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

First you select the ultimate goal of a system, then you select the various levels of intermediate goals needed to accomplish that ultimate goal, and finally, you select the initial goals needed to ...

exemplars

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Examples containing the critical stimulus or response features. For example, the critical features of a bus are that it transports more than six people on the ground, has wheels and an engine. ...