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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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anxiety
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Anxiety is a descriptive term which refers to the changes in a performance produced by an aversive or preaversive stimulus. These changes include a decrease in the frequency of ...
back-up reinforcer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An object or event that already has demonstrated its capability to reinforce an individual's behavior. It is received in exchange for a specific number of tokens, points, or other ...
applied behavior analyst
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An individual who has demonstrated mastery of the professional competencies involved in assessing behavior and designing, implementing, evaluating, and communicating the results ...
alternating-treatments design
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An experimental design in which the replications involve presenting the different values of the independent variable in an alternating sequence under the same general conditions ...
based on these ideas
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An equation for the single operant is called the quantitative law of effect. The equation relates absolute response and reinforcement rates, using alternative sources of ...
box
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An experimental chamber containing the organism during an experiment, usually with some degree of sound and light shielding, and containing one or more manipulanda, reinforcing ...
behavioral dynamics
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An area of research that attempts to analyze schedule effects in terms of a few basic processes. Behavioral dynamics requires a high level of mathematical sophistication. Both ...
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- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)