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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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within experiment replication
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Repetition of an entire phase during the course of an experiment.
relative stimulus control
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Relative stimulus control means that an organism responds to differences among the values of two or more stimuli. For example, a pigeon may be trained to peck in the presence of the larger of two ...
phototaxis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Rejection of substances with a given taste after their ingestion has been followed later by gastrointestinal distress or nausea (e.g., as produced by x-irradiation). It might be interpreted as ...
supplementary reinforcers
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcers used in addition to the natural reinforcers.
noncontingent reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcement that depends, in some way, on responding. Reinforcement that is contingent on speaking, for example, may not follow every spoken response, but it depends on speaking in that it does not ...
