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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reinforcer survey

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A set of questions designed to identify an array of reinforcers effective for a particular individual. II

stimulus/response (S-R) chain

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A sequence of two or more behaviors in which each behavior produces a result that is the discriminative stimulus for the next behavior and in which the last behavior is reinforced. Most of our ...

run

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A sequence of responses, bounded by pauses or by some event (e.g., an FR run is the response sequence within a single ratio).

stimulus-response chain

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A sequence of discriminative stimuli and responses. Each response produces a change in the environment that acts as a discriminative stimulus or operandum for the next response.

A schedule that reinforces a complex operant consisting of completion of a schedule requirement (e.g., with FR 10 reinforced according to an Fl schedule, every tenth response that occurs at least 50 ...

time schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

a schedule of response-independent reinforcer deliveries. Aside from this difference, time schedules are classified like interval schedules. Infixed-time (FT) schedules, the time between reinforcers ...

variable-ratio schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule of intermittent reinforcement under which reinforcements are programmed according to a random series of ratios having a given mean and lying between arbitrary extreme values.