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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dependency

Psychology; Behavior analysis

roughly, a contingency completely specified by the experimenter or with a conditional probability very close to I.O. dependent group contingency

density

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A synonym for rate, as in reinforcement density or shock density.

demonstration research

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A style of research in which the primary goal is to show that a certain outcome is possible. See Explanatory research.

delphi method

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A strategy for identifying the best examples of any particular class of items is to ask a panel of experts independently to suggest an optimal list. By pooling the items and sometimes repeatedly ...

1) The hypothesis that it is necessary for a stimulus to be paired with a primary reinforcer in order for it to become a conditioned reinforcer. The hypothesis has been largely discounted. and the ...

delayed response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A discriminative response that occurs some time after the removal of a discriminative stimulus, as when the sample in a matching-to-sample procedure is turned off several seconds before the ...

delayed prompting

Psychology; Behavior analysis

When the natural antecedent stimulus (S) fails to evoke a given response, an artificial SD (prompt), usually the correct answer, is inserted to occasion the behavior so it can then be reinforced. ...