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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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 ...