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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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local rate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Rate of responding in some small re ion of a curve. Contrasted with overall rate. See also rate of responding. 2) Rate measured over a short time. The tangent of the cumulative curve at any given ...
operant reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Presenting a reinforcing stimulus when a response occurs, or arranging such presentation. 2) Operant behavior refers to those performances which are increased in frequency by operant ...
respondent extinction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Present the conditioned stimulus without pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus or with an already established conditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimulus will lose its eliciting power. ...
selection by consequences
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Operant selection or the ontogenic analogue of phylogenic or Darwinian selection, expressed as an abbreviated form of the selection of behavior by its consequences. In a more general sense, all ...
response class
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Operant responses that may vary in topography but produce the same or similar consequences. For example, saying "Please open the door" and physically opening the door are members of the same ...
observational learning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Learning based on observing the responding of another organism (and/or its consequences). Observational learning need not involve imitation (e.g., organisms may come to avoid aversive stimuli upon ...
learned helplessness
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) In the phenomenon called learned helplessness, an animal is first exposed to inescapable and severe aversive stimulation. Eventually the animal gives up and stops attempting to avoid or escape the ...
