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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social reinforcer

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An interpersonal act that serves a reinforcing function. Praise (e.g., "That's a good job") usually functions as a social reinforcer.

proprioceptive stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An inter-oceptive stimulus produced by the effects of movements and postures on receptors in muscles, tendons, or joints.

tell procedure

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An instructional or stimulus control procedure that uses oral or written instructions or rules to prompt a response under appropriate conditions so that reinforcement may be delivered.

potentiation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An increase, over repeated presentations, in the respondent behavior elicited by a stimulus (especially, an aversive stimulus).

reminiscence

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An increase in recall probability as time passes since learning. Reminiscence is an occasional phenomenon that usually appears, if at all, shortly after learning.

simple baseline design

Psychology; Behavior analysis

An experimental design in which the baseline data are collected before the intervention.

An experimental design in which first one element of the treatment is withdrawn, then a second, and so on, until all elements have been withdrawn; particularly well suited to assessing behavior for ...