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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A token is used as a conditioned reinforcer. It is usually a metal or plastic disc which an organism (usually one with an opposing thumb and forefinger such as a man or chimpanzee) can carry around ...

partial-interval time-sampling

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A time-sampling procedure whereby a response is recorded if it occurs at any time(s)-even momentarily-during the interval, and not necessarily throughout the interval, as in whole interval ...

reactive measurement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A threat to internal validity in an experiment. When a dependent variable changes just because it is measured, the effect is called reactive measurement. For example, a person may lose weight because ...

trial-and-error learning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A term coined by Thorndike (1898, 1911) that he used to describe results from his puzzle box and maze learning experiments. Animals were said to make fewer and fewer errors over repeated trials, ...

match-to-sample method

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A task in which a student selects from two or more alternatives the stimulus that matches or corresponds to a standard or sample.

needs assessment

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A systematic method for identifying goals to target for programmatic change' Needs assessment may include observations, tests interviews, questionnaires, and other sources of input.

yoked boxes

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A system of controlling frequency of reinforcement as one variable in experiments on ratio schedules. Reinforcements are "set up" in one box whenever they are set up in another on a ratio schedule. ...