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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Behavior analysis

Identification in advance of values or levels to be reached, often by a particular time. A goal might be set at a certain number of accomplishments, level of quality, percentage of correct answers, ...

edible reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Food with a reinforcing function.

forgetting

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Forget forgetting. There's no such thing.

Skinner box

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Another name for an operant conditioning chamber, a laboratory apparatus used for studying animal behavior.

night owl

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Night owl is a term used to describe a person who is habitually active late at night because they either can't and don't want to go to bed before midnight. The opposite of a night owl is an early ...

psychological anthropology

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes.

bieberosis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A psychological disorder commonly found in urban teens in which people suffering from bieberosis are delusional of identifying themselves with Justin Bieber, an immensely popular teenage icon. One of ...