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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incidental learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In human learning, learning that occurs in the absence of instructions or consequences, and usually contrasted with intentional learning.

error

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In a simultaneous discrimination, a response to a stimulus not correlated with reinforcement; in a successive discrimination, a response in the presence of a stimulus correlated with extinction. ...

immediate-change rule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

If performance changes as soon as a rule is stated, you've got rule control, not contingency control.

Imitation training consists of three parts: (1) the teacher demonstrates what behavior the learner is to engage in (called the imitative stimulus; (2) the learner is called on to produce a similar ...

fixed-interval schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule of intermittent reinforcement in which the first response occurring after a given interval of time, measured from the preceding reinforcement, is reinforced. A given interval schedule is ...

innate imitation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Imitative responding that occurs as a function of phylogeny or species history. See also imitation.

frequency of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

How often reinforcement occurs. It can refer to the number of reinforcements per unit of time or to the number of responses that are reinforced out of the number made.