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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level of processing

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The abstractness or richness of coding (e.g., encoding the number 2001 as a year or as the title of a film involves deeper levels of processing than encoding it as an arbitrary sequence of four ...

stimulus equation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Temporarily eliminating the irrelevant dimensions of complex stimuli, leaving only the critical dimensions in order to facilitate discrimination.

tangible reinforcers

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Tangible items (magazines, jewelry, toys, cars, and so on) the contingent delivery of which increases or maintains a behavior.

mnemonics

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Techniques for enhancing remembering.

reinforcement procedure

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Systematically planned, goal-directed applications of principles of effective reinforcement.

running rate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Sustained constant rate, often the only important single rate except for zero observed under a given schedule (as in some ratio performances).

transfer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Substituting one set of discriminative stimuli for another (or, as a process, the stimulus control maintained after such a substitution). Transfer may be based on common properties of two sets of ...