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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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stability
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Session-to-session variability in performance (the lower the variability, the more stable the performance). A performance that can shift from one to another of two or more ...
second-order conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Second-order conditioning involves the pairing of two CSs (CSI + CS2), rather than the pairing of a CS and US (CS + US). Pavlov (1927/1960) conducted experiments that demonstrated ...
signal
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Roughly, a discriminative stimulus or an occasion-setting stimulus; a stimulus that sets the occasion on which some contingency operates or on which some other stimulus may be ...
recalibrate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Retraining observers to improve interobserver agreement scores, or to maintain their performance at acceptably high levels.
rate of responding
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Responses per unit time. Several types have been distinguished: overall or average rate, determined over a substantial time such as an experimental session; local, momentary, or ...
mean rate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Responses per unit time calculated for an interval during which changes in local rate have occurred.
response contingent
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Response-contingent removal of an aversive condition resulting in an increased frequency of that response.
Sub-categories
- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)