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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law of the latency

Psychology; Behavior analysis

As the intensity of the US increases, the latency (time to onset) of the UR decreases.

law of intensity magnitude

Psychology; Behavior analysis

As the intensity of a US increases, so does the magnitude or size of the unconditioned response.

operation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any experimental procedure or condition (e.g., presenting a stimulus, reinforcing a response, arranging a schedule, etc.). The behavioral vocabulary often fails to provide separate terms for ...

peer influence strategies

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Arrangements of group contingencies that promote peer influence (e.g., peer tutoring and peer reinforcement). Illustrative are cooperative learning structures that rely on dependent and ...

sensitization training

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any form of counterconditioning that reduces an inappropriate positive response to an event. (Compare desensitization training.)

side effect

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any effect that accompanies the main effect with which an experimenter is concerned. The distinction is often arbitrary, because no stimulus has a single effect (e.g., a researcher interested in ...

verbal discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Any discrimination among verbal stimuli, as in discriminating among nouns and verbs in a sentence. Discrimination among items on the basis of whether they appeared in a given context, verbal ...