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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dictation-taking

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A formal verbal class in which a vocal verbal stimulus occasions a corresponding written response. The correspondence is defined by the one-to-one relation of verbal units (e.g., letters or words).

diagram of schedules of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

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deviation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A change in rate against an established baseline, often followed by compensatory changes in rate.

desensitization training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any form of counterconditioning that reduces an inappropriate negative response to an event. (Compare sensitization training.)

deprivation operation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The procedure of restricting access to a reinforcing event. The effectiveness of a reinforcer is increased by withholding it.

deprivation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) As operation--withholding food, water, sexual contact, etc. Any given program establishes a "level" of deprivation. 2) As process--resulting changes in behavior, usually spoken of as an ...

1) A variable that is measured while another variable (the independent variable) is changed in a systematic way. When systematic changes in the independent variable are accompanied by changes in the ...