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) A verbal response that specifies its reinforcer. In human verbal behavior, manding is usually a higher-order class, in the sense that a newly acquired tact can be incorporated into a novel mand ...

parameter

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A variable that is held constant while some other variable changes. When different values of a parameter are examined, the parameter distinguishes different functions within a family of functions ...

observer drift

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A unintended change in the accuracy of an observer's performance. 2) A point at which indexes of agreement between observers begin to diverge.

response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A unit of behavior with a clear beginning and end. Responses can be operant or respondent, depending on whether they are controlled by; stimuli which follow them or by stimuli which precede them. ...

preaversive stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A stimulus that reliably precedes an aversive stimulus and thus may be a conditioned aversive stimulus. Such stimuli may reduce the responding maintained by positive reinforcers, an effect ...

positive reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A stimulus that occurs immediately following responding, resulting in an increase in some aspect of the response class over baseline levels. 2) A reinforcing event in which something is added ...

reversal design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A single case of design in which baseline and intervention conditions are repeated with the same person. 2) an experimental design in which behavior is compared during baseline, during ...