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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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Psychology; Behavior analysis
Strictly, the reduction in uncertainly provided by a stimulus, usually quantified in bits, the number of binary decisions needed to specify the stimulus. One bit specifies 2 alternatives, two bits 4, ...
independent research
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A style of research which a researcher conceives of a study independently of any coordinated research program or even the existing literature. See Thematic research and Box 3.
generalized reinforcers
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A system of generalized learned reinforcers in which the organism that receives those generalized reinforcers can save them and exchange them for a variety of backup reinforcers later.
in-house research
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A style of research in which a study is designed to serve strictly local purposes and is not intended to be published in the archival literature.
explanatory research
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A style of research in which the primary goal is to understand the nature or mechanisms of the relationship between the independent and dependent variable. See Demonstration research
establishing stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus that gets paired with an establishing operation, and the response or stimulus change it evokes becomes a conditioned stimulus for that operation. It cues or prompts the occurrence of the ...
imprinted stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus that, by virtue of its presentation during some period in the lifetime of an organism, has become effective as a reinforcer. Imprinting is noted primarily in some bird species (e.g., ...
