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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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set
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Loosely, a disposition to respond. The term may refer to stereotyped patterns of operant behavior (especially under stimulus control) or to effects of the conditional stimuli of a conditional ...
phylogenic constraints
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Limitations on learning or differential capacities for learning that depend on phylogenic selection, including properties of the behavior classes that can be produced and limits on the contingencies ...
key light
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Light projected upon the translucent pigeon key, used as a stimulus. Lights of different colors or patterns may be used.
serial learning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Learning an ordered list of items. In serial recall, the learner has an opportunity for recall after the entire list is presented. In serial anticipation, items are presented one at a time and the ...
primary punisher
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Is any punisher that loses its effectiveness only through satiation (adaptation). Primary punishers are usually basic physical events such as hitting, shock, pinching, and so on.
