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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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Behavior analysis

stimulus discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A response occurs more frequently in the presence of one stimulus than in the presence of another, usually as a result of a discrimination training procedure. 2) The tendency for behavior to have ...

primary reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A reinforcer whose effectiveness does not depend on its contingent relation to another reinforcer. 2) Any reinforcer which is necessary for the survival of the species. Food, water, and sex, for ...

natural reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A reinforcer indigenous to the natural environment. A good mark is usually a natural reinforcer in a school setting as is pay for a worker. 2) A reinforcer that have not been arranged by someone ...

reflex

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A reflex is a relationship between an eliciting stimulus and an elicited response such as the contraction of the pupil of the eye as a result of shining light on it, the jerk of the knee as a ...

response cost

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A reductive procedure in which a specified amount of available reinforcers are continently withdrawn following the response. Usually these reinforcers are withdrawn from the client's reserve, as ...

matching law

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A quantitative formulation stating that the relative rates of different responses tend to equal the relative reinforcement rates they produce. The generalized matching law summarizes this relation ...

probability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A proportion or relative frequency, either scheduled or derived from data. The probability of an event is given by the number of times it occurs divided by the opportunities for it (how often it ...

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