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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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maintenance
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Continuation of the conditions that generated a performance. The analysis of maintained performance, as a subject matter, is different from but not incompatible with that of acquisition (e.g., many ...
problem solving
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Constructing discriminative stimuli, either overfly or covertly, in situations involving novel contingencies; these stimuli may set the occasion for effective behavior (as when a verbal problem is ...
sequential dependencies
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Conditional probabilities of successive events (e.g., given concurrent responses A and B, the probabilities of A followed by A, A followed by B, B followed by A, and B followed by B).
operationally defined
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Colloquial psychological terms that are broken down into measurable components.
teaching
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Changing behavior. Helping others to learn, or to learn faster, or more efficiently than they would on their own. Teaching may be intentional or unintentional.
rate dependency
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Changes in the magnitude and perhaps direction of effect of a variable that depend on baseline response rate, especially in reference to drug effects (e.g., as when some drug dose increases low ...
reversible effects
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Changes in performances that are eliminated, either immediately or over some time, when the operations that produced them are discontinued (e.g., if responding returns to earlier levels after ...
