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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running weight

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A given body-weight, selected as an indicator of a schedule of deprivation, at which the organism is held from day to day during an experiment.

A game of chance in which participants receive reinforcers as prizes. Several cups are placed upside down, concealing paper slips on which the names of reinforcing items or events are written. Each ...

property

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A fundamental quality of a natural phenomenon. See Dimensional quantity.

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Psychology; Behavior analysis

A formal verbal class in which a written stimulus occasions a corresponding written response. The correspondence is defined by the one-to-one relation of verbal units (e.g., letters or words) and not ...

textual behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A formal verbal class in which a written stimulus occasions a corresponding vocal verbal response. The correspondence is defined by the one-to-one relation of verbal units (e.g., letters or words). ...