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) The vertical or y-axis on a graph. In behavior analysis, the response measure (e.g., frequency) usually is plotted on the ordinate. 2) The vertical line of a graph, used to display the amount or ...

parsimony

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The use of no unnecessary concepts, principles, and assumptions. 2) In science, an approach to explanation that favors simplicity and a reliance on the fewest principles.

repertoire

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The term repertoire is used to indicate the total number of latent performances which the organism may emit under the various conditions present in its environment and as a result of its past ...

magazine

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The term magazine refers to a mechanical device containing a supply of food which can be delivered in small portions to the organism. 2) A mechanical device which makes food, water, etc., ...

pavlovian conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Any procedure by which an event comes to elicit a response by being paired with an event that elicits that response. 2) The term Pavlovian conditioning is synonymous with reflex or respondent ...

response generalization

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The tendency for the effects of training one behavior to spread to other behaviors. 2) An alternative term for induction.

rule control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The statement of a rule controls the response described in that rule. 2) Start looking for rule control, if the reinforcer follows the response by more than 60 seconds.