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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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language development
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The emergence of language in the individual. Much of the controversy about language development revolves around assumptions about the respective phylogenic and on to genic contributions to it.
pseudoconditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The elicitation of responding by one stimulus as a result of its presentation in the same context as another, even though neither had been presented in a contingent relation to the other. See ...
measurement reactivity
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The effects of measurement procedures on a subject's behavior.
procedure of shaping with reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The differential reinforcement of only that behavior that more and more closely resembles the terminal behavior.
procedure of shaping with punishment
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The differential punishment of all behavior except that which more and more closely resembles the terminal behavior.
multiple causation of behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The determination of behavior by two or more variables acting at the same time. Behavior is always controlled by multiple variables, although some may be more important than others. Behavior analysis ...
language relativity
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The dependence of the behavior within a verbal community, both verbal and nonverbal, on the verbal discrin-dnations incorporated within its language.
