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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programmed instruction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1)The selection and arrangement of educational content based on principles of human learning (Taber et al., 1965). The student progresses in steps from one level of difficulty to the next. ...

1) When several schedules of reinforcement are available concurrently, one alternative may be chosen more frequently than others. When this occurs, it is called preference for an alternative source ...

verbal behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Verbal behavior refers to the vocal, written, and gestural performances of a speaker, writer, or communicator. This behavior operates on the listener, reader, or observer, who arranges for ...

record

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Used in speaking of the present figures to identify a portion representing either a whole session or part of a session, as distinct from curve, excursion, etc. 2) Some portion of the data from a ...

systematic replication

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) To repeat or duplicate experimental findings despite varying a number of conditions, such as task, setting or other parameters of the basic procedures. 2) A way to increase the generality of an ...

response-response interval

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Time elapsing between two successive responses. Inter-response time. 2) On an avoidance schedule, the time from a response that postpones shock to the onset of the aversive stimulus (if another ...

time out

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Time (in minutes unless otherwise specified) during which the organism characteristically does not engage in the behavior being studied. With pigeons a convenient TO is arranged by turning off all ...