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) An analysis of complex behavior and sequences of behavior into component responses. 2) Breaking down a complex skill, job or behavioral chain into its component behaviors, subskills, or subtasks. ...

multiple-baseline design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) An an experimental design in which a treatment is introduced at different times (according to a staggered schedules) to determine its effect on two or more behaviors in one individual or on two or ...

learning history

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) All the environmental events (antecedents and consequences) that have affected a person's behavior up to the present. 2) The sum of an individual's behaviors that have been conditioned or ...

unconditioned stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) All organisms are born with a set of reflexes (US - UR). These relationships are invariant and biologically based. The eliciting event is called the unconditioned stimulus (US). 2) A stimulus, the ...

unconditioned response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) All organisms are born with a set of reflexes (US - UR). These relationships are invariant and biologically based. The behavior elicited by the US is called the unconditioned response (UR). 2) An ...

warm up

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Acceleration at the start of a session leading to the level of performance characteristic of the bulk of the session. 2) A low or zero response rate at the start of a session followed by-an ...

target behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A written rule statement describing the desired or undesired behavior, the occasion when the behavior should or should not occur, and the added outcome for that behavior. 2) The behavior being ...