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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ap In a successive discrimination between one stimulus correlated with reinforcement and another correlated with extinction, a stimulus property present only during reinforcement components (e.g., as ...

exteroceptive stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

any stimulus presented at or outside of the organism's skin.

frustration

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any operation that reduces an organism's opportunities to emit highly probable responses (or the consequences of such operations, especially emotional behavior, aggression, or escape from correlated ...

environmental event

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any event in a person's environment that can be observed.

generalized punisher

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any conditioned punisher that is associated with many other punishers.

experimental setting

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An inclusive reference to all features of the environment in which both control and experimental conditions will be implemented. May sometimes refer to all variables other than the independent ...