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) An event that, when made contingent on a behavior, decreases the frequency of that behavior. 2) A stimulus that, when presented immediately following a response, effects a reduction in the rate ...

s delta

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An event in the presence of which a target behavior is not reinforced. (Pronounced "ess-delta.") See discriminative stimulus. 2) An S-delta represents the particular occasion on which a ...

vacuum activity

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An ethological term referring to a response occurring not in the presence of the stimulus that usually produces it, but rather in the presence of one that usually produces some other response . ...

sequence effect

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An effect on a subject's behavior resulting from contact with a prior condition. 2) A situation in which one experimental treatment phase within the experiment influences subsequent performance ...

overshadowing

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An attenuation of respondent conditioning with one stimulus caused by the presence of another stimulus (e.g., if soft tone and loud bell together precede food, tone may remain ineffective as a CS ...

withdrawal design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An aspect of an experiment directed toward establishing experimental control unambiguously to demonstrate a functional relation. Experimental designs control for extraneous influences such as ...

prompt

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An antecedent that induces a person to perform a behavior that otherwise does not occur. 2) An added stimulus in a discrimination-training procedure designed to increase the probability of a ...