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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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logarithmic interval scale
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A measurement scale that supports the description of phenomena that allow the determination of equality, order, and the equality of ratios among values. See Reading 10 in Readings.
linear interval scale
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A measurement scale that supports the description of phenomena that allow the determination of equality, order, and the equality of intervals among data values. See Reading 10 in Readings.
nominal scale
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A measurement scale that labels objects or events in any manner that distinguishes among them. See Reading 10 in Readings.
ordinal scale
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A measurement scale in which measurement distinguishes among objects or events and indicates order. See Reading 10 in Readings.
post-discrimination gradient
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A measure of responding in the presence of different stimuli as a function of their location along a continuum . Gradients are ordinarily determined b presenting the stimuli successively but in ...
reinforcer menu
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A list of stimuli from which responders may select those they prefer to be awarded as a consequence of a unit of work.
response deprivation hypothesis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A hypothesis that states when access to one activity is restricted to below baseline levels, the person will engage in the targeted activity at a level exceeding baseline rates in order to gain ...
