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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indirect measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Measurement practices in which the events measured are not the same as those about which conclusions will be drawn. See Direct measurement.

generalization training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A method designed to occasion in another stimulus situation a behavior emitted in one stimulus situation; programming for stimulus generalization. For instance, students who learned skills in one ...

extinction/recovery test

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Is the SA contingency always extinction or recovery?

explanatory fiction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Is a statement that has the form of an explanation but whose "cause" is really the same as its "effect." In an explanatory fiction the same set of facts is described both by the behavior that is ...

equal-ratio graph

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Is a graph which has numbers spaced on the vertical axis so that ratios will be equal up and down the graph. If you multiply or divide by a certain amount (that is, change by a certain ratio) you ...