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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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releaser
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An ethnological term for a stimulus that elicits a stereotyped pattern of behavior . Releasers are often US's provided by the behavior or the physical features of another organism. In some usages, ...
medical model myth
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An erroneous view of human behavior that behavior is always a mere symptom of an underlying psychological condition.
primary aversive stimuli
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An aversive stimulus that has acquired its properties as a function of species history.
unconditioned respondent behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An autonomic response that requires no previous learning. Other respondent behavior may be conditioned, as in Pavlov's famous experiments with the conditioning of dogs' salivation responses.
stimulus property
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An attribute or parameter of the stimulus such as topography, texture, volume, size, color, position, and intensity. See also Parameter.
psychophysics
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An area of psychology that evolved out of the philosophical concern with the relation between mind and body. Psychophysics relates behavioral properties of stimuli to properties defined in physical I ...
nonsense syllable
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An arbitrary sequence of letters, usually a CVC trigram, that is not a word. Nevertheless, nonsense syllables can vary in meaningfulness (e.g., the close resemblance of LUQ to LUCK may make it more ...
