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experimental analysis of behavior
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Experimental analysis of behavior
The
experimental analysis of behavior
(
EAB
) is the name given to the school of
psychology
founded on
B. F. Skinner
’s philosophy of
radical behaviorism
. A central principle was the
inductive
, data-driven examination of functional relations, as opposed to the kinds of
hypothetico-deductive
learning theory
that had grown up in the
comparative psychology
of the 1920–1950 period. Skinner's approach was characterized by
empirical
observation of measurable behavior which could be predicted and controlled. It owed its early success to the effectiveness of Skinner's procedures of
operant conditioning
, both in the laboratory and in
behavior therapy
—what is now called
applied behavior analysis
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