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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private behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behavior that is only accessible to the person who emits it (e.g., thinking).

transition-state performance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behavior that is changing from one state to another as a function of a change in contingencies of reinforcement. For example, when CRF contingencies are changed to FR 10, responding is at first ...

mediating behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Behavior occurring between two instances of the response being studied (or between some other event and such an instance) which is used by the organism as a controlling stimulus in subsequent ...

Behavior observed in all or most members of a species (of only one or of both sexes, and perhaps only over limited times in each organisms life). Different usages may include. emitted behavior before ...

species-specific defense reaction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

avoidance or escape responding that has a phylogenic origin. Such behavior presumably evolved because natural environments do not allow organisms to learn certain types of avoidance or escape ...

neophobia

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Avoidance of novel stimuli, especially of new foods.

sick social cycle

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Aversive behavior frequently occurs at a high rate because such behavior is often reinforced by producing attention, approval, or compliance by someone else. In turn, the temporary relief from that ...