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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instructional demand

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An unintended alteration in behavior as a function of variations in the way instructions are delivered in an experiment.

An extinction gradient in which responding increases along the stimulus continuum as the distance from a stimulus previously correlated with extinction increases. This is taken to indicate that the ...

generality

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An experimental result is shown to have generality when it is observed in different environments, organisms, and so on. For example, the principle of reinforcement generalizes over species, settings, ...

educational significance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An assessment that considers whether change occurred as a function of the program, the intervention was implemented as specified, and if the intervention was beneficial to the student and those in ...

fixed action pattern

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An ethological term for a sequence of responses, usually but not necessarily produced by a releaser, the consistent patterning of which cannot be attributed to the operation of an operant chain. When ...

ethology

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An area of biology concerned with the analysis of the behavior patterns that evolve in natural habitats, either in species or in individual organisms, with particular emphasis on those patterns that ...