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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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abscissa

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The horizontal or x-axis on a graph. In applied behavior analysis, the abscissa usually depicts successive trials or the passage of time, such as days.

aversive stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus effective as a negative reinforcer or as a punisher, or that suppresses positively reinforced operant behavior during another stimulus that precedes it. A stimulus with ...

accuracy

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The extent to which observed values approximate the "true" state of nature.

adaptation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A reduction, usually during the prolonged presentation of a stimulus, in the behavior produced by that stimulus (e.g., tation to an experimental chamber).

automaintenance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The maintenance of autoshaped responding by continuing contingent stimulus-reinforcer relations. In negative automaintenance, the contingent stimulus-reinforcer relation operates ...

believability

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The extent to which the researcher can convince others to believe that the data represent what they are intended to represent and thus warrant interpretation, even though there is ...