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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natural concept

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A class of discriminative stimuli produced through presentations of complex natural stimuli (as when a pigeon discriminates between pictures with and pictures without trees in them).

permanent product recording

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A behavioral recording method in which durable products of a behavior-such as the number of windows broken, widgets produced, homework problems handed in, rejects, percentage of test questions ...

mammacare

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A behavioral program used to teach women effective self-examination of their breasts.

A behavior that does not leave an enduring product (e.g., smiling, paying attention, or teasing). Such a behavior needs to be observed and recorded as it occurs or preserved by recording it on film, ...

squaring a simple graph

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A a process performed by dividing the ordinate by the abscissa rounding the result up to the next whole number, and labeling the ordinate with numbers that increase in steps equal to the number.

outcome recording

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A a method of observation in which a response occurrence is recorded if the result of a behavioral episode is observed.

satiation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Any operation that changes the status of a stimulus as a reinforcer or punisher deprivation, satiation, procedures that establish formerly neutral stimuli as conditioned reinforcers or as ...