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

A variation of the DRO procedure. Reinforcers are delivered at a particular preset moment, provided a particular behavior is not being expressed at that moment-best reserved for maintaining rather ...

self-desensitization

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A variation of systematic desensitization in which the client conducts the treatment without the aid of a therapist.

module

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A unit of instruction, often consisting of a pretest, instructional materials, and a posttest.

newtons

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A unit of force; n. usually, number.

prototype

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A typical member of a probabilistic class, described by a weighted average of all features of all members of the class (e.g., feathers are weighted more heavily than webbed feet among birds because ...

transitory state

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A transitional pattern of responding that ends in a return to the original level or pattern of responding.

representation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A transformation of stimuli occurring either when an organism responds to them or later (e.g., in remembering). In some accounts they are copies; in other accounts representations have arbitrary ...