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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1) The process of building an operant by reinforcing only those responses that are closest to it. When the operant we want is a response to a certain kind of stimulus (such as answers to a question ...

reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The procedure of providing consequences for a behavior that increase or maintain the frequency of that behavior. 2) The operation of immediately following responses with consequences that result ...

punishment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The procedure of providing consequences for a behavior that decrease the frequency of that behavior. 2) A procedure in which a punisher or aversive stimulus is presented immediately following a ...

law of effect

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The principle that, in any given situation, the probability of a behavior occurring is a function of the consequences that behavior has had in that situation in the past. An abbreviated form says ...

stimulus equivalence

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The presentation of one class of stimuli that occasions responses made to other stimulus classes. 2) Classes of stimuli characterized by reflexivity, symmetry and transitivity among members.

topography

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The physical form or characteristics of the response. For example, the way that a rat presses a lever. 2) With behavior, the form of responses in three-dimensional space.

self-management

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A procedure in which individuals change some aspect of their own behavior. One or more of four major components are generally involved. (1) Self-selection of goals; (2) monitoring one's own behavior; ...