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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individualized instruction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Instruction in which what each student does, and how fast he or she progresses, depends on his or her performance.

freeze technique

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Instructing individuals to become immobile while maintaining the current topography of their behavior. Used to teach people to discriminate positive and. negative examples of particular motoric ...

identity matching

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In identity matching, the researcher presents a sample stimulus (e.g., red) and two options (e.g., red and green). The organism is reinforced for choosing the red option that corresponds to the ...

In the free operant method, an organism may repeatedly respond over an extensive period of time. The organism is "free" to emit many responses or none at all. More accurately, responses can be made ...

experimental significance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In determining experimental significance we ask what the behavior would be if the experimental intervention had not occurred. Did the treatment result in a meaningful change in the behavior?

first-order conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In first-order respondent conditioning, an apparently neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus. When this occurs, the control of the response to the US is transferred to the neutral ...

food deprivation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In many animal experiments with food reinforcement, it is necessary to stop giving the animal food for a period of time so that the experimenter may use food as an effective reinforcer. When an ...