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 procedure that is used to investigate recognition of stimuli. For example, in a simple recognition procedure, a pigeon may be presented with three keys. A triangle is projected onto the center ...

timeout

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A period of nonreinforcement arranged either by extinction during a stimulus orby removal of an opportunity to respond (e.g., with pigeons, which only rarely peck keys in darkness, by turning off ...

model

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A person whole behavior is imitated by others or a product with characteristics that others try to reproduce. 2) A person whose behavior is imitated.

pause

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A period of no responding, contrasted with neighboring fairly high rates, as after reinforcement at high ratios. 2) A period of no responding, not necessarily bounded by responses.

multiple baseline design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A multiple baseline research design across behaviors is used when a reinforcement procedure is applied progressively to several operants. In this case the subject, setting, and consequences remain ...

token economy

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A form of contingency contract, usually involving a group of people, in which the reinforcers are tokens that may be exchanged for other (backup) reinforcers in the future. 2) A contingency ...

simultaneous discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A discrimination in which two or more discriminative stimuli are presented at the same time rather than successively (e.g., see JUMPING STAND) and which therefore involves two or more alternative ...