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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1) Some relations between stimuli, and between stimuli and responses, are more likely because of phylogenetic history. This phenomenon has been called preparedness. For example, a bird that relies on ...

sign tracking

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Sign tracking refers to approaching a sign (or stimulus) that signals a biologically relevant event. For example, dogs are required to sit on a mat and a stimulus that signals food is presented to ...

self control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Self control occurs when an organism produces a change in the environment which in turn alters the frequency of some performances in its own repertoire. Thus, the dieter who stores peanuts and ...

learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Roughly, acquisition, or the process by which behavior is added to an organism's repertoire; a relatively permanent change in behavior. The term has been used in so many different ways in both ...

respondent conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Respondent conditioning occurs when an organism responds to a new event based on a history of association with a biologically important stimulus. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered ...

negative reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Removing an aversive stimulus as a consequence of a response resulting in the maintenance of or an increase in rate of the behavior. A behavior has been negatively reinforced if it increases or is ...

rate of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Reinforcers per unit time; sometimes used in preference to reinforcement frequency because frequency occasionally refers not to reinforcers per unit time but rather to reinforcers per response, ...