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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graduated guidance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The combined use of physical guidance and fading, resulting in a systematic gradual reduction of the intensity of physical guidance.

intrinsic variability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The assumption that variability in behavior is in one way or another inherent and therefore immutable in human (and animal) nature. See Extrinsic variability.

The availability of two or more concurrent operants even if one is consistently chosen over the other. The term is best restricted to cases in which each class is maintained by reinforcement, but it ...

extrinsic variability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The assumption that variability in behavior is describable, predictable, and explainable with reference to variation in other phenomena, either organismic or environmental. See Intrinsic variability.

experimental design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The arrangement of experimental and control conditions so as to permit data-based comparisons about the effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable that will help answer the ...

intervention package

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The addition or change of several independent variables at the same time to achieve a desired result, without testing the effect of each variable individually.

executive function

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Stimulus control refers to a differential form or frequency of a performance in the presence of one stimulus which is not evident in the presence of another.