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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Benjamin Franklin effect

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A form of cognitive dissonance where people come to like people that they do nice things to, and dislike those that they do bad things to. In other words, our behavior towards somebody shapes our ...

children and adolescents

Psychology; Behavior analysis

People at pre-adulthood ages. Adolescence is generally considered as ending at age 19.

The psychological phenomenon that results in a person's intrinsic desire to perform an action being reduced once they expect to receive an extrinsic reward. The person's desire to perform that action ...

matching to sample

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A procedure that is used to investigate recognition of stimuli. For example, in a simple recognition procedure, a pigeon may be presented with three keys. A triangle is projected onto the center ...

delayed matching to sample

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Behavior that occurs in a consistent relation to reinforced behavior and that, although reinforcers are not explicitly arranged for it, is maintained because it makes reinforcers more likely. For ...

Bobo doll experiment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A psychology experiment conducted by Albert Bandura studying the degree to which children's behavior are influenced by adults exhibiting aggressive behavior. In this experiment, children were exposed ...

Napoleon complex

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Refers to overly-aggressive or domineering behavior that is exhibited by a person and implies that the person is compensating for his/her short stature. The term is named after Emperor Napoleon I of ...