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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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within experiment replication
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Repetition of an entire phase during the course of an experiment.
relative stimulus control
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Relative stimulus control means that an organism responds to differences among the values of two or more stimuli. For example, a pigeon may be trained to peck in the presence of ...
phototaxis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Rejection of substances with a given taste after their ingestion has been followed later by gastrointestinal distress or nausea (e.g., as produced by x-irradiation). It might be ...
supplementary reinforcers
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcers used in addition to the natural reinforcers.
noncontingent reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcement that depends, in some way, on responding. Reinforcement that is contingent on speaking, for example, may not follow every spoken response, but it depends on speaking ...
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