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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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repeated measures design
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An approach to arranging comparisons between control and experimental conditions in which subject's behavior is often measured many times under each condition before contacting the next condition. ...
jumping stand
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An apparatus used to study discrimination, especially with rats. The rat is forced to jump from platform to one of two doors on which stimuli are displayed. One door is unlocked, and by jumping to it ...
multimedia maze
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An apparatus through which an organism locomotes, usually from a startbox to a goalbox that contains some reinforcer such as food, and often including alternative paths that divide at choice-points ...
signal detection analysis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An analysis of stimulus delectability in terms of conditional probabilities of a response given a signal in noise or noise alone. A response to a signal in noise is a correct detection, or a hit, and ...
stimulus substitution
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An account of respondent conditioning, no longer widely accepted, stating that the CS becomes a substitute for the US. But a CR is not simply a UR now elicited by a new stimulus; one of several ...
melioration
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Allocating time to two or more response classes so all local reinforcement rates are equal. For example, assume a pigeon whose pecks in a changeover-key procedure are maintained by concurrent VI 20-s ...
operant aggression
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Aggressive operant behavior (e.g., attack, fighting, etc.) that is reinforced by the removal of an aversive event. See also negative reinforcement.
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