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

role-playing

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Performance of a sequence of responses to simulate the action of another individual or the same individual under other circumstances. A method of behavioral rehearsal.

transfer of training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Performance established at one time in one place now occurs in a different time and place.

pay for performance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Pay (usually with money or the equivalent) is contingent on specific (usually agreed upon) achievements.

pairing procedure

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Pairing of a neutral stimulus with a reinforcer or aversive condition.

segment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Part of the record of an experimental session, usually between two reinforcements.

paced response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

pacing. See DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES. (Catania)

learning set

Psychology; Behavior analysis

or learning-to-learn. A case of transfer in which, on the basis of similar relations among stimuli in a sequence of discrimination problems, accuracy in later problems improves more rapidly over ...