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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Behavior analysis

1) Any device that may be operated by an organism and that defines an operant class in terms of an environmental effect (descriptive operant; see operant). Many operanda consist of switches (as in ...

successive approximation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Any behavior similar to a target behavior; it is usually one of a series of behaviors differentially reinforced in a program of shaping toward the goal of producing the target behavior. 2) ...

respondent

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An unconditioned or conditioned reflex in the sense of a response elicited by a particular stimulus. 2) A respondent is behavior that is elicited as a function of the previous pairing of a ...

occasion

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An opportunity for a response or some other event, or the circumstances under which a contingency operates, as when discriminative stimuli set the occasion on which responses have some ...

tact

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An intraverbal is a class of verbal operants regulated by verbal discriminative stimuli. In everyday language, thematically related words (or sentences) are examples of intraverbals. For example, ...

link

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An intact response or performance, that is combined with others in the formation of a behavioral chain. 2) A response in a chain or a component in a chained schedule.

operant conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An increase or decrease in operant behavior as a function of the consequences that follow responses. 2) Reinforcing consequences immediately following the response increase its future likelihood; ...