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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successive discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A discrimination in which two or more discriminative stimuli are presented one at a time rather than simultaneously and which therefore usually involves only a single response (e.g., as in a ...

1) A contingency on inappropriate behavior requiring the person to engage in an effortful response that more than corrects the effects of the inappropriate behavior. 2) The procedure of reducing the ...

momentary time sampling

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A discontinuous observation procedure in which the observational period is divided into intervals but the observer only notes the status of the target behavior during a "moment" following the end ...

token reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A conditioned reinforcer (e.g., a coin) that the organism may accumulate and later exchange for other reinforcers. 2) A symbol or object (i.e., check marks, poker chips) that can be exchanged at ...

probe

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A condition or stimulus introduced into a performance to clarify the variables controlling it (e.g., the interruption of FR responding by an occasional brief stimulus correlated with reinforcement ...

mixed schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A compound schedule in which two or more component schedules opera te in alternation, all during the same stimulus. Occasionally, a VI or VR schedule with a limited number of schedule values is ...

sequence analysis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A description of an individual's behaviors and the events observed to precede and follow those behaviors. Used to provide clues about the possible functional properties of various antecedent and ...