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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squaring a multiple-baseline graph

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Involves squaring the condition containing the largest value of the ordinate and applying that scale to the graphs for all baselines. A condition is defined as beginning with the introduction of the ...

maintenance training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Intervention procedures that increase the likelihood that changes in a target behavior will persist when the intervention is ended.

private events

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In verbal behavior, events accessible only to the speaker (usually, events inside the skin). Private events have the same physical status as public events, but it is more difficult for the verbal ...

meaning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In verbal behavior, a response to verbal stimuli; or the defining properties of a class, usually including some verbal components, in which the members can serve either as stimuli or as responses.

transposition

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In transfer experiments, a reversal of stimulus function depending on control by relations among stimuli on a continuum rather than by their absolute values (e.g., a rat learns to choose the larger ...

multiple baseline across stimulus conditions

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In this research design, a reinforcement procedure is applied in one situation but is withheld in other settings. When behavior changes in the situation where it is reinforced, the contingency is ...

structural approach

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In the structural approach, behavior is analyzed in terms of its form or topography. For example, many developmental psychologists are interested in the intellectual growth of children. These ...