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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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eidetic memory
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Sometimes called photographic memory, a rare type of remembering, usually in children, in which visual stimuli are described in detail, as if seen, long after they were presented.
foraging
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Searching for food. Foraging in natural habitats has been treated as a chain that includes search, prey identification, capture of prey, and handling and/or consumption of prey, with concurrent or ...
fixed-ratio
Psychology; Behavior analysis
schedule of reinforcement. A reinforcer follows a fixed number of responses.
fixed-interval
Psychology; Behavior analysis
schedule of reinforcement. A reinforcer is contingent on the first response after a fixed interval of time since the last opportunity for reinforcement.
elicited
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Respondent (CR) or reflexive (UR) behavior is said to be elicited in the sense that it is forced by the presentation of a stimulus (CS or US).
excitation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Roughly, the production of behavior or the variables that produce it, used especially in contrast with inhibition.
interdependent schedules
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Schedules in which the operation of one depends on some property of the other (e.g., in one version of inter-dependent concurrent VI VI schedules, each VI arranges setups only during runs of ...
