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

The basic idea of the Rescorla-Wagner model of respondent conditioning is that a conditioned stimulus acquires a limited amount of associative strength on any one trial. The term associative strength ...

research design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The arrangement of the various conditions of an experiment or intervention to reduce the confounding of independent variables.

intrinsic consequences

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Stimulus changes which are produced by (and are dependent on) the behavior of the individual who experiences them. Natural consequences are contrasted with artificial or , by trinsic consequences, ...

reinforcement reserve

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The unconsumed quantity of reinforcers in the possession of an individual or group. This term frequently refers to a number of tokens or other exchangeable reinforcers.

verbal stimuli

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Words, gestures, and other symbolic stimuli.

withdrawal of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Withdrawal of reinforcement usually refers to the withdrawal of a stimulus which is the occasion on which a performance may be reinforced. Withdrawal of reinforcement is to be distinguished from ...

relative rate of response

Psychology; Behavior analysis

When two or more sources of reinforcement are available (as on a concurrent schedule), relative rate of response refers to rate of response on one alternative divided by the sum of the rates on all ...