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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physical prompt

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The trainer physically moves the trainee's body in an approximation of the desired response.

The term threshold has been used in the text to refer to the magnitude of an eliciting stimulus which is just sufficient to elicit the reflex. The term threshold is widely used in the literature of ...

memory

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The term MEMORY arises when an environmental event at a given time results in an organism behaving differently at a later time. In everyday psychology the later behavior is then attributed to the ...

linguistics

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The study of language, usually divided into the topics of syntax or grammatical structure, semantics or meaning, and pragmatics or the functions of language. Psycholinguistics is a branch of ...

methodology

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The study of experimental methods. Also used to refer to experimental methods themselves.

language universals

Psychology; Behavior analysis

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law of exercise

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The statement, in earl accounts of learning, that repetition of a response contributes to its strength. The law has also been stated in terms of use and disuse. A more contemporary version states ...