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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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hypothetical-deductive method
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An approach to experimental reasoning in which reasoning is from a set of general postulates or axioms to a series of specific theorems that can then be verified by experiment.
functional analysis of behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An analysis of behavior in terms of its products or consequences. Functionally, there are two basic types of behavior, operant and respondent. The term respondent is used to define behavior that ...
errorless learning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Acquiring particular discriminations by means of instruction designed to prevent errors. Sequences of artificial discriminative stimuli are arranged carefully and faded slowly and systematically so ...
extraneous sources of reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
All nonprogrammed sources of reinforcement in a situation that affect behavior on a specified alternative. See also quantitative law of effect.
intraverbal
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A verbal response occasioned by a verbal stimulus, where the relation between stimulus and response is an arbitrary one established by the verbal community. Intraverbal behavior is chaining as it ...
free recall
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A verbal learning procedure in which the learner recalls the items of a list, usually after a single presentation, without regard to the original order of the items.
in vivo desensitization
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A variation of systematic desensitization in which the anxiety-arousing situations to which the person is exposed are real, rather than imagined.
