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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reinforcement contingencies

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The reinforcement contingencies that an organism has been exposed to during its lifetime, including the resulting changes in behavior due to such exposure.

The reduction of one response by the time and/or effort involved in concurrent responding. The terminology distinguishes reductions directly caused by concurrent responding from those caused by the ...

resurgence

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The reappearance, during extinction, of previously effective behavior.

relative rate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The rate of one event (especially a response or a reinforcer) as a proportion of the summed rates of that and other events (e.g., given the rates of A and of B, the relative rate of A is calculated ...

regression

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The reappearance of previously extinguished behavior during the extinction of more recently reinforced behavior.

terminal link

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The rate reached on the fixed schedules at the moment of reinforcement.

operational statement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The product of breaking down a broad concept, such as "aggressiveness," into its observable and reliably measurable component behaviors (frequency of hitting or biting others, duration of scream, and ...