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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
squaring a complex graph
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A process performed when making a graph with more than one condition by selecting the condition with the highest value of the ordinate and squaring the graph for that condition. Use the same scale ...
transfer of stimulus control
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A process by which a new antecedent stimulus begins to evoke a response instead of a previous antecedent stimulus. In applied behavior analysis this is often deliberately arranged by using fading or ...
reductive procedure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A procedure, such as Alt-R, DRL, punishment, response cost, and timeout, used to reduce the rate of a behavior. Section IV
time delay prompting
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A procedure, sometimes called progressive delay or delayed prompting, designed to teach a behavior by interposing a time delay between the presentation of the natural and an artificial discriminative ...
positive reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A procedure whereby the rate of a response maintains or increases as a function of the contingent presentation of a stimulus (a positive reinforcer) following the response.
repeated acquisition
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A procedure that examines acquisition as steady-state performance. For example, assume a monkey must emit a sequence of presses on four Levers to produce a reinforcer and the required sequence ...
reinforcer sampling
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A procedure that enables an individual to come in contact with a potential reinforcer to experience the positive characteristics of the stimulus. The procedure is useful in developing new reinforcing ...
