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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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level of processing
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The abstractness or richness of coding (e.g., encoding the number 2001 as a year or as the title of a film involves deeper levels of processing than encoding it as an arbitrary ...
stimulus equation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Temporarily eliminating the irrelevant dimensions of complex stimuli, leaving only the critical dimensions in order to facilitate discrimination.
tangible reinforcers
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Tangible items (magazines, jewelry, toys, cars, and so on) the contingent delivery of which increases or maintains a behavior.
reinforcement procedure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Systematically planned, goal-directed applications of principles of effective reinforcement.
running rate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Sustained constant rate, often the only important single rate except for zero observed under a given schedule (as in some ratio performances).
transfer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Substituting one set of discriminative stimuli for another (or, as a process, the stimulus control maintained after such a substitution). Transfer may be based on common ...
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