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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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orienting response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In operant behavior, a response that puts an organism in a position to entitle other responses or that allows it to attend to a discriminative stimulus . In respondent behavior, a ...
sensitivity
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In most behavioral usages, a measure of threshold (the organism's capacity to respond differentially to different stimuli or conditions.)
sample-specific behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In matching-to sample, differential responding to each sample stimulus, usually introduced to ensure sample stimulus control. For example, pigeon matching-to-sample may be ...
two-factor theory
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In general, any behavioral theory involving the interaction of operant and respondent processes; more specifically, an avoidance theory stating that avoidance responses are ...
neuropharmacology
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In errorless discrimination, the trainer does not allow the organism to make mistakes by responding to the extinction stimulus. Initially SD and SI are very different, but ...
post reinforcement pause
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In conditioned suppression, a previously neutral stimulus (e.g., tone, light, etc.) is paired with an aversive US such as an electric shock. After several pairings, the originally ...
schema
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In cognition, an organized representation of events, especially in complex contexts (e.g., spatial schemas relating lengths, areas, and volumes, or social ones arranged in ...
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