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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defensive conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Respondent conditioning in which the US is an aversive or noxious stimulus.

deadline principle

Psychology; Behavior analysis

If an indirect-acting contingency is to increase or maintain performance, it should involve a deadline.

decoding

Psychology; Behavior analysis

the learner's behavior with respect to the item to be remembered at the time it is recalled.

dead man's test

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An informal test of whether a particular event is a behavior to the effect that, "If a dead man can do it, it is not behavior."

1) The pause in responding that occurs after reinforcement on some intermittent schedules (e.g., FR, FI). 2) The period of no responding following a reinforcer, especially in an FR or an Fl. In an ...

percentage reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The omission of a fixed proportion of the reinforcers arranged by a schedule. For example, in an FR 100 schedule with 50 percent reinforcement, only half of the completed ratios end with a ...

over-all rate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The mean rate over a fairly large segment of behavior. See also rate of responding. 2) The mean rate for a still longer period of time (of the order of minutes or hours). Frequently applying to ...