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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stimulus-contingent

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The presentation of a reinforcing stimulus contingent on behavior is called positive reinforcement, and it has the effect of increasing operant behavior.

1) Recording the time that elapses from the onset to the offset of a response (e.g., the length of time a person spends talking on the phone). 2) When behavior is continuous, duration recording is a ...

duration of response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The time from the beginning to the end of a response (sometimes called holding time). Analyses of this property of responding depend heavily on procedural details. For example, if a reinforcer is ...

duration

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A dimensional quantity that refers to the elapsed time between the beginning and ending of a an event, such as a single response. Total or aggregate duration refers to the sum of multiple ...

dual-functioning chained stimuli

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus in a stimulus-response chain reinforces the response that precedes it. That stimulus also acts as an SD for the response that follows it.

distribution

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A classification of events according to location along a continuum. For example, an IRT distribution classifies IRTs into several temporal categories (e.g., less than 1 second, I but less than 2 ...