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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Behavior analysis

Experimental research that is concerned with discovering principles and conditions that govern the behavior of single organisms. Each individual's behavior is studied to assess the impact of a given ...

session

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Experimental period. The period during which an organism is exposed to experimental conditions, usually once per day.

magazine training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Establishing an association (in time) between stimuli that precede reinforcement and the reinforcing event. For example, a rat is placed in an operant chamber and a microcomputer periodically turns ...

phylogenetic behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Environment-behavior relations that are based on the evolutionary history of a species are called phylogenetic. The reflex is one instance of phylogenetic behavior. Species history provides the ...

overgeneralization

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Emitting a response appropriate to some contexts in an inappropriate context. For example, calling all men "dada." 15, 29

schedule effects

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Effects on behavior which are due to the schedule of reinforcement the individual is on rather than to other factors which affect behavior, such as quantity or quality of reinforcement, deprivation ...

proaction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Effects of learning at one time on other learning that occurs later. When the later learning is impaired, the effect is a variety of negative transfer called proactive interference or proactive ...