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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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echoic behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A formal verbal class in which a vocal verbal stimulus occasions a corresponding vocal verbal response. The correspondence is defined by the one-to-one relation of verbal units (e.g., phonemes or ...
frame
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A finely graded instructional step. Part of a teaching segment in programmed instruction. Reinforcement is used as confirmation for correctly responding to each step. See also Programmed instruction.
experimental condition
Psychology; Behavior analysis
That part of an experiment in which the independent variable is present. The independent variable may be only part of the variables constituting the experimental condition. Also called treatment or ...
instinctive drift
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Species-characteristic behavior patterns that became more and more invasive during operant training.
imitative reinforcers
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Stimuli arising from the match between the behavior of the imitator and the behavior of the model.
incidental teaching
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A teacher requires that a student emit the proper form of a request before reinforcing that request, in the student's regular environment.
ecobehavioral assessment
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Studying behavior in relation to its context-ongoing and previous contingencies. Ecobehavioral assessment considers how a behavior change may affect and be affected by contextual conditions as well ...
