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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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physical prompt
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The trainer physically moves the trainee's body in an approximation of the desired response.
threshold
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The term threshold has been used in the text to refer to the magnitude of an eliciting stimulus which is just sufficient to elicit the reflex. The term threshold is widely used in ...
memory
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The term MEMORY arises when an environmental event at a given time results in an organism behaving differently at a later time. In everyday psychology the later behavior is then ...
linguistics
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The study of language, usually divided into the topics of syntax or grammatical structure, semantics or meaning, and pragmatics or the functions of language. Psycholinguistics is ...
methodology
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The study of experimental methods. Also used to refer to experimental methods themselves.
law of exercise
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The statement, in earl accounts of learning, that repetition of a response contributes to its strength. The law has also been stated in terms of use and disuse. A more ...
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- General psychology (27052)
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