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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extraneous variables

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Environmental events that are not of interpretive interest to the researcher and that may influence the subject's behavior in ways that obscure the effects of the independent variable.

environmental control of behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Environmental control of behavior refers to the changes in the frequency of operant performances produced by the presence or absence of discriminative stimuli.

emotion

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Emotion is a state of the organism in which the form and frequency of several items of behavior in the ongoing operant repertoire are altered. The term emotion, as it is classically used, has the ...

intersubject variability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Differences in responding between individual subjects.

Discriminative effects of reinforcing stimuli (as when the smell of food makes responses reinforced by food more likely); occasionally, a stimulus that changes the reinforcing or punishing status of ...

grammar

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Descriptions of the structural or syntactic properties of verbal behavior. Sequential grammars appeal only to the discriminative effects of prior verbal stimuli ; they are inadequate for dealing with ...

inhomogeneous data

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Data derived from more than one type of performance and that, when summarized statistically, misrepresent the performances from which they were derived (as when an avoidance schedule produces both a ...