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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intraorganism

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reference to the level of the individual organism (e.g., behavior is an intraorganism phenomenon in that it involves only relations between the individual organism and its environment).

A process inferred from a response decrement. The term, extended to behavior by analogy to usage in physiology, is appropriate only when it can be demonstrated that the decrement is produced by an ...

habituation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reduction, over repeated presentations, in the respondent behavior elicited by a stimulus.

hierarchy, of behavior or responses

Psychology; Behavior analysis

a ranking of response classes on the basis of their relative probabilities. A more probable class is said to be higher in the response hierarchy.

instructional training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A procedure that consists of three parts. (1) The teacher provides a verbal description of the desired behavior; (2) the learner produces the instructed behavior; and (3) the teacher arranges for ...

incompatible performance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A performance is incompatible with another when it is impossible for both performances to occur at the same time. Thus the behavior of clasping the hands behind the back is incompatible with reaching ...

findley procedure

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A method used to present concurrent schedules in the operant laboratory. Separate schedules are programmed on a single key, and the organism may switch schedules (and associated SDS) by making a ...