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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discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) When an organism makes a differential response to two or more stimuli, we can say the animal discriminates between them. This process is called discrimination. 2) The process of responding ...

discriminated operant

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A response under stimulus control The response occurs only when the particular SD is present. 2) An operant defined in terms of the stimuli during which it occurs as well as its environmental ...

discriminated extinction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Low-rate operant behavior that occurs as a function of an S^. For example, the probability of putting coins in a vending machine with an "out of order" sign on it is very low.

discriminated behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

is a behavior that is more likely to occur in the presence of the SD than in the presence of the S-delta in a discrimination-training procedure.

discriminated avoidance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Avoidance behavior that is emitted as a function of a warning stimulus. For example, a dog stops barking when its owner shouts, "Shut up!”

discriminate stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any event in the presence of which a target behavior is likely to have consequences that affect its frequency. Discriminate stimuli include SDs ("ess-dees") and S(s ("ess-deltas").

discrete trials procedure

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A way of arranging the subject's contact with the independent variable in which the subject cannot respond until the experimenter sets up and begins each trial.