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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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reflexivity
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A one-to-one relationship (A = A) between stimuli. For example, a pigeon is presented with the color red on a sample key and the bird responds to a comparison key with the identical color (red). ...
mechner notation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A notation system that describes the independent variables that produce operant behavior. For example, Mechner notation represents the way that schedules of reinforcement are arranged.
misbehavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A nontechnical term sometimes used to refer to the intrusion of behavior with phylogenic origins into ongoing operant behavior. For example, raccoons ordinarily rub and wash food before eating it; if ...
social disruption
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A negative side-effect of punishment in which the person who delivers punishment and the context become conditioned aversive stimuli. Individuals will attempt to escape from or avoid the punishing ...
mixed schedule of reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A mixed schedule is two or more basic schedules (CRF, FR, Fl, VI, VR) presented sequentially in which each link ends with primary reinforcement (or in some cases extinction) and the component ...
passive avoidance
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A misnomer for punishment. To avoid passively is not to respond when responding has been punished. For example, a rat is placed on a platform above an electrified grid. Its failure to step down onto ...
personalized system of instruction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A method of teaching that usually is characterized by. (1) The goat-your-own-pace feature, which permits a student to move through the course at a speed commensurate with his ability and other ...