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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setting event

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The context or circumstance in which an environment-behavior relationship occurs. The event changes the strengths of stimuli and responses involved in an environment-behavior interaction. 2) ...

process

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The changes in behavior produced by an experimental operation. 2) Any change in rate of responding, specifically as the result of an experimental operation.

stimulus generalization

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The behavioral contingencies in the presence of one stimulus affects the frequency of the response in the presence of another stimulus. 2) The tendency for the effects of training in one ...

rate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The average frequency of behavior emitted during a standard unit of time. Formula. Number of responses divided by the number of time units. For example, if 20 responses occur in 5 minutes, the ...

1) The appearance of pauses in VR responding, or in FR responding at times other than after a reinforcer ; a result of large ratio size and/or low reinforcement frequency. 2) A reduction in the rate ...

stimulus control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Systematic influence of an antecedent stimulus (or set of stimuli) on the probability of occurrence of a response. The response form or frequency differs from under one controlling stimulus, or ...

topography of response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Spatial configuration or form (e.g., how an organism operates an operandum or moves from one place to another), sometimes also specifying location (e.g., the place on a key the pigeon's beak ...