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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The specific design and construction of the key varies, depending upon the organism operating it. The term key has come to be a generic term, synonymous with manipulanda, foot treadle, or lever. A ...

slope

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The slope of a cumulative record refers to the tangent of the angle the record forms with the abscissa. Where the rate of the performance is changing, the slope of the record at any point is given by ...

total-task presentation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The simultaneous establishment of all links in a stimulus-response chain.

operant selection

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The selection of behavior during the lifetime of an individual organism; the modification of operant behavior by its consequences (see especially DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT and SHAPING). This type of ...

precise behavioral measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The selection and implementation of accurate, clearly defined operations for recording and quantifying behavior. Precise measurement allows change to be measured and evaluated unambiguously.

psychological reality

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The role of some class of events in behavior, especially in psycholinguistics (as when grammatical transformations are demonstrated as something that speakers do with sentences).

negative punishment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The response-produced presentation of positive punishers or the termination of negative punishers (or, the response decrement or suppression that results). The terminology closely parallels that of ...