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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emotional behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Correlated changes in a range of response classes (e.g., if a preaversive stimulus simultaneously alters heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, defecation, and operant behavior maintained by ...

implicit learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Contingency-shaped learning (as when one learns to speak grammatically even though one cannot state the grammatical rules).

Conditional stimulus control that emerges as a by-product of other stimulus-control relations rather than through differential reinforcement. For example, if arbitrary matching has been arranged for ...

equivalence class

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus class (usually produced through conditional discrimination in matching-to-sample) that includes all possible emergent relations among its members. The properties of an equivalence class ...

facultative behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Collateral behavior generated by properties of a schedule of reinforcement. See also adjunctive behavior.

interdimensional

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Between or across dimensions.

escape behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Behavior that reduces or removes aversive stimulation, thereby producing negative reinforcement. See also Negative reinforcement. E 2) Behavior that is reinforced by getting out of an aversive ...