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 stimulus dimension. Stimulus continua that vary along intensive dimensions (e.g., brightness, loudness) are called prothetic, those that vary along nonintensive dimensions (e.g., color, pitch)are ...

motor programs

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Coordinations that do not depend on response feedback (e.g., in producing a phoneme, movements of lungs, vocal chords, tongue, and lips must be separately initiated at different times; thus, their ...

temporal integration

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Control of behavior by the distribution of events in time. Behavior can be affected by events extended over some time, and recent events may weigh more heavily than those further in the past. The way ...

moral rule control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Control by rules specifying added analogs to behavioral contingencies. Such rules specify social, religious, or supernatural outcomes.

water magazine

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) The term magazine refers to a mechanical device containing a supply of food which can be delivered in small portions to the organism. 2) A mechanical device which makes food, water, etc., ...