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 short period during which a reinforcement arranged by an interval schedule is held available. At the end of the limited hold, a response will not be reinforced until another reinforcement has ...

three-term contingency

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A set of functional relationships among distinct classes of antecedent stimuli, responses, and consequent stimuli that together constitute the model of how behavior is influenced by the ...

value

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A set of behaviors, public and private, which a society reinforces. 2) Learned and unlearned reinforcers and aversive conditions.

tandem schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule of intermittent reinforcement in which a single reinforcement is programmed by two schedules acting in succession without correlated stimuli. E.g., in tand FI 10 FR 5 a reinforcement ...

variable interval

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule in which a person is reinforced for the first response after a varying period of time has passed since the previous reinforcement. This schedule usually causes a person to respond at a ...

ratio schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A schedule in which the last of a specified number of responses is reinforced. In a fixed-ratio (FR) schedule, the number is constant from one reinforcer to the next; performance is characterized ...

variable ratio

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A response-based schedule of reinforcement in which the number of responses required for reinforcement changes after each reinforcer is presented. The average number of responses is used to index ...