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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distributed practice

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Uninterrupted activity on a task (as in cramming for an exam). In most tasks, massed practice is less effective than distributed practice. 2) Spacing periods of activity on a task.

discriminative stimulus for punishment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any stimulus that is associated with the punishment of a particular behavior.

discriminative stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response will be reinforced or punished. "2) In operant discrimination. a stimulus in the presence of which a response is reinforced and in the ...

discriminative stimuli

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Stimuli that have acquired the function of setting the occasion for a behavior to occur. A behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of a discriminative stimulus than in its absence.

discrimination-training procedure

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Reinforcing or punishing a response in the presence of one stimulus and extinguishing it or allowing it to recover in the presence of another stimulus.

discrimination training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The procedure in which a behavior is reinforced in the presence of one stimulus and extinguished in the presence of another stimulus. It is also used to label more complex situations where one ...