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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variable duration schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer is provided after a target behavior has been performed continuously for a period, with the period varying around an average of n length.

negative practice

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A punishment procedure that requires the client to practice repeatedly the target behavior for a predetermined time period contingent on the occurrence of the unwanted behavior.

suppression

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reduction in responding directly or indirectly produced by an aversive stimulus (e.g., by punishment or by the presentation of a preaversive stimulus). The term is sometimes extended to any ...

temporal extent

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A property of any phenomenon that occurs in time. Described in terms of the dimensional quantity of duration.

temporal locus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A property of any phenomenon that occurs in time. Described in terms of the dimensional quantity of latency.

A process through which a stimulus acquires or loses the capacity to elicit a response, control a discriminative response, set up an emotional "state," etc., because of its similarity to a stimulus ...

response induction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A process through which a response changes its probability or rate because it shares properties with another response which has changed its probability or rate through other means.