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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One threat to internal validity has been called instrument decay. In behavioral research, instrument decay refers to observers becoming better or worse at measuring the dependent variable. Such an ...

emitted

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Operant behavior is said to be emitted in the sense that it occurs at some probability in the presence of a discriminative stimulus, but the SD does not force its occurrence.

excursion

Psychology; Behavior analysis

On the standard recorder the pen returns to a baseline after cumulating a block of responses of the order of 800 to 1000. In describing the present figures, each crossing of the paper by the pen is ...

experimental interaction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

One experimental condition affects the results of another.

incomplete measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurement that only samples from the complete population of responses. May still be continuous measurement during observation periods.

hypothetical constructs

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Nonobservable postulated events that are said to explain behavior. For example, Freud's mental device "ego" is a hypothetical construct. From a behavioral perspective, the difficulty is that the ...

idemnotic measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurement in which units whose meaning is (a) absolute or fixed, (b) defined independently of what is being measured, and (c) standard across all scientists.