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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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Behavior analysis
homogeneous chains schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Operant chains are classified as homogeneous when the topography or form of response is similar in each link of the schedule. For example, a bird pecks the same key in each component of the chain. ...
ethics
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Operating according to ethical precepts. providing for voluntariness and/or informed consent by clients or advocates; arranging the least intrusive or restrictive and most benign yet effective ...
implicit memory
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Remembering demonstrated by the effect of an item on other behavior rather than by its recall (as when a priming stimulus enhances a learner's later recognition of a semantically related word even ...
interobserver agreement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A procedure for enhancing the believability of data that involves comparing independent observations from two or more transducers (usually human) of the same events. Provides no information about ...
functional fixity
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Problem-solving behavior in which the common function of a tool, object, or material makes it less likely that the solver will use it effectively in a novel way.
