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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
variable-interval schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule of intermittent reinforcement in which reinforcements are programmed according to a random series of intervals having a given mean and lying between arbitrary extreme values.
percentile-reinforcement schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule in which the eligibility of a response to produce a reinforcer depends on its location within a response distribution (e.g., a schedule for long IRTs might reinforce any IRT in the top 25 ...
progressive schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule in which requirements change progressively with each reinforcer (e.g., in one progressive ratio schedule, the ratio increases by 5 responses after each reinforcer). The schedule sometimes ...
variable time schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule in which reinforcement is delivered contingent on the passage of a variable time interval, not upon the occurrence of a particular response.
ratio schedules of reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule in which reinforcement is delivered contingent on the last of a number of responses. (a) Fixed ratio (FR) schedule-A reinforcement schedule in which a constant number of responses must ...
titration schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule in which one response changes a variable in one direction and either a second response or nonoccurrence of the first changes it in the other (e.g., one response increases stimulus ...
stereotyped response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A response with properties (especially topography) that are relatively invariant over successive occurrences.
