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Psychology
The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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retroaction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Effects of learning at one time on other learning that occurred earlier. When the earlier learning is impaired, the effect is a variety of negative transfer called retroactive ...
ontogenetic behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Each organism has a unique life history that contributes to its behavior. Ontogenetic behavior is due to events that occur over the lifetime of an individual. Ontogenetic history ...
schedule-induced behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Displacement behavior is observed in the natural environment and is characterized as irrelevant, incongruous, or out of context. The activity of the animal does not make sense ...
working memory
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Differentiation and discrimination of one's own remembering (as when keeping track of a constantly changing list of items in running or working memory, or judging whether some ...
temporal discrimination
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Discrimination based on temporal properties of stimuli (i.e., stimulus duration), often appealed to in accounts of spaced responding. For example, if a response is more likely to ...
relational discrimination or relational learning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Discrimination based on relational rather than absolute properties of stimuli (e.g., to the left of or to the right of; same or different; greater than or less than; see also ...
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