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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organism

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A complex life form carrying on the functions of life by means of separate but interdependent organs or systems

1) A multiple schedule is two or more basic schedules (CRF, FR, FI, VI, VR) presented sequentially in which each link ends with primary reinforcement (or in some cases extinction) and the component ...

social comparison

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A comparison of the performance of clients exposed to the intervention with an equivalent or "normal" group.

sequential comparison

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A comparison of data from control and experimental conditions in which subjects contact one after exposure to the other.

textual

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A class of verbal operants regulated by verbal stimuli where there is correspondence between the stimulus and response, but not topographical similarity. The most common example of textual behavior ...

reactance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A class of research designs used primarily in applied behavior analysis. See also multiple baseline across behaviors, multiple baseline across stimulus conditions, and multiple baseline across ...

rating scales

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A class of measurement procedures that usually require an observer to rate at least one but usually many behaviors or behavioral categories by as- signing to each a number from a scale (such as I to ...