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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Behavior analysis

aprendizaje de escape evitacion

Psicología; Análisis conductual

A learning situation in which the target behavior results in escape from, or avoidance of, an aversive event.

estimulo informativo

Psicología; Análisis conductual

Un estímulo predictivo; un estímulo discriminativo, aunque no necesariamente un reforzador condicionado (por ejemplo, un estímulo correlacionado con el castigo diferencial que se superpone sobre el ...

habituacion

Psicología; Análisis conductual

Una reducción, sobre las presentaciones repetidas, en el comportamiento de la respuesta provocada por un estímulo.

inhibicion

Psicología; Análisis conductual

A process inferred from a response decrement. The term, extended to behavior by analogy to usage in physiology, is appropriate only when it is shown that the decrement is produced by an increment in ...

reforzador extrinsico

Psicología; Análisis conductual

A reinforcer that has an arbitrary relation to the responses that produce it (as when a musician plays for money rather than because the playing produces music). The term has also been applied to ...

relacion funcional

Psicología; Análisis conductual

A relationship in which one variable changes systematically according to the value of another. Generalization The spread of effect from a particular stimulus to other stimuli that share common ...

programa de intervalo

Psicología; Análisis conductual

A schedule in which some minimum time must elapse before a response is reinforced; early responses have no effect. The time is measured from some event, typically a stimulus on set or the last ...