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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physical guidance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A form of response priming in which the appropriate body part or parts are physically guided through the proper motion by another person. For example, a swimming coach guiding the movement of a ...

run of responses

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A fast burst of responding. For example, after the postreinforcement pause on a fixed-ratio schedule, an organism will rapidly emit the responses required by the ratio.

predictive stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A discriminative stimulus. A stimulus predicts an event if the probability of the event given the stimulus differs from that without the stimulus.

natural discriminative stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A discriminative stimulus indigenous to- the natural environment, not one artificially introduced. The printed word is a natural SD for reading the word; a hint is not. The hour that marks the ...

whole -interval time-sampling

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A direct observational procedure in which the presence or absence of specific behaviors is recorded within short uniform time intervals. (E.g., an observer observes for 10 seconds and records the ...

quarter-life

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A dimensional quantity reflecting the time required to emit 2 5 % of the responses that occur during an interval (most often, under a fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement). Provides a way of ...