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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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differential reinforcement of alternative behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The replacement of an inappropriate response with a specific appropriate response that produces the same reinforcing outcome (i.e., either the presentation of a reinforcing condition or the ...
differential reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The occurrence of a reinforcement on selected occasions as or after one topography of a performance as opposed to another topography, is called differential reinforcement. For example, one may ...
differential reinforced
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Any stimulus with a discriminative function; according to an older usage, a stimulus correlated with reinforcement when another is correlated with extinction. The latter usage has become less common ...
differential rate reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcement (continuous or intermittent) which depends upon the immediately receding rate of responding. This may be the reciprocal either of the time elapsing between the reinforced response and ...
differential punishment procedure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Punish one set of responses and allow another set of responses to recover.
differential penalizing of high rates
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Loss or prevention of a reinforcer occurs for each response that follows the preceding response by less than some minimum delay.
differential conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
usually, producing a discrimination in respondent conditioning. See RESPONDENT DISCRIMINATION.
