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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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functional relation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A mathematical function appealed to by a functional analysis. 2) An experimentally determined relation that shows that the dependent variable depends on or is a function of the independent ...
free-feeding weight
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The stable weight maintained by a mature organism with unlimited access to food and water. A percentage of this weight (e.g., 80 percent) may serve as a criterion for a level of deprivation.
generalization, stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The spread of effects to other stimulus situations when behavior is modified in the presence of one stimulus situation. Generalization occurs when stimulus control is absent or incomplete. (The child ...
elicitation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The reliable production of a response by a stimulus in unconditioned or conditioned reflexes.
evocation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The production of a response. A response is sometimes said to be evoked if it is unclear whether it is emitted or elicited.
