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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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Behavior analysis
respondent aggression
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Aggression elicited by the presentation of an aversive event. The same as pain-elicited aggression.
reinforcement contingency
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Accidental reinforcement describes a coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer. Even though there is no intentional connection between the organism's performance and the reinforcer, there is ...
narrative recording
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A written description of behavior in progress. The recorded events then can be ordered into a sequence analysis that specifies a behavior, its antecedents, and its consequences.
multiple-baseline designs
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A within-subject or intensive experimental design that attempts to replicate the effects of a procedure (treatment or intervention) across (1) different subjects, (2) different settings, or (3) ...
topographical response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A way of defining a response class that considers only the form of responses in three-dimensional space.
omission training
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A version of differential reinforcement of zero behavior (see differential-reinforcement schedules); a reinforcer is delivered only if no response has occurred in a trial or within a given time. It ...
paired associates learning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A verbal learning procedure in which each of several stimuli (usually verbal) sets the occasion for a different verbal response. The stimulus items are presented repeatedly in varied order until the ...
