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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social validity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The goals, procedures, and results of an intervention are socially acceptable to the client, the behavior analyst, and society. 2) The use of outside yudges to determine whether a behavioral ...

response topography

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The form of a response in three-dimensional space. 2) The sequence (path of movement), form, or location of components of a response relative to the rest of the body.

1) The extent to which a measurement procedure yields the same value when brought into repeated contact with the same state of nature. Repeatability. A property of behavior that is described in terms ...

phylogeny

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The evolution of a genetically related group of organisms. A behavior with phylogenic origins is one that was acquired by the species during the course of its evolution as a result of ...

latency

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The elapsed time from the presentation of an antecedent stimulus (cue, prompt, signal) and the response. 2) The time from the onset of one event to the onset of another. For example, the time it ...

ontogeny

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The development or course of development of an individual organism. A behavior with ontogenic origins is one that was acquired during the lifetime of the individual as a result of contingencies of ...

motivation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The contingencies for responding - roughly speaking, the "reasons" for behaving. 2) The degree to which an individual has been deprived or satiated with a particular reinforcer. 3) The extent to ...