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

A sequence or chain of behavior set off by a specific stimulus. The component responses are repeated almost identically with each presentation of the stimulus. Fixed-action patterns are based on a ...

fixed interval

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which a person is reinforced for the first response after a fixed period of time has passed since the previous reinforcement. This schedule usually causes people to pause after a ...

intermittent schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule involving intermittent reinforcement as contrasted with continuous reinforcement and extinction.

intermittent schedule of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which some rather than all operants are reinforced. In other words, an intermittent schedule is any schedule of reinforcement other than continuous (CRF).

interval schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which some minimum time must elapse before a response is reinforced; early responses have no effect. The time is measured from some event, typically a stimulus on set or the last ...

functional relationship

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A relationship in which one variable changes systematically according to the value of another. Generalization The spread of effect from a particular stimulus to other stimuli that share common ...

extrinsic reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcer that has an arbitrary relation to the responses that produce it (as when a musician plays for money rather than because the playing produces music). The term has also been applied to ...