Category: B

Base Rate Fallacy A base rate fallacy is committed when a person judges that an outcome will occur without considering prior knowledge…

Barbiturates This is a class of drug derived from barbituric acid that is often used for medical purposes as a sedative and/or…

Babbling (babbling stage) You have to love it when children begin to speak! The babbling stage is a very early stage of…

B.F. Skinner B.F. Skinner (1904 – 1990) is best known for developing the theory of Operant Conditioning, which uses reinforcers or consequences…

Beliefs A belief is a proposition that is regarded as true. A belief may be factually correct (“The world is round”) or…

Behavior therapy The use of classical and operant conditioning principles to bring about therapeutic change. Techniques of behavior therapy include systematic desensitization,…

Behavior setting In ecological psychology, the interaction of social, physical, and ecological situations with behavior.

Behavior modification Application of operant conditioning principles to individual cases. This has been applied primarily in schools in the United States with…

Behavioristic Of or like a behavioral approach.

Behaviorism An approach to psychology that limits itself to a description of relationships between observable environmental events and the ensuing observable behavior…