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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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acquisition
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The addition of new behavior to an organism's repertoire. The behavior may be a discriminated operant, a topographically complex operant, a conditional reflex relation, or the ...
abstract control by a stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Sometimes the property of the stimulus which controls an operant performance may not be found in any single instance of the stimulus. When such is the case the control may be ...
behavioral objectives
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Statements of what students should be able to do at the end of a unit of study. They are also called performance objectives and terminal objectives.
adjunctive behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A type of behavior that is evoked by or adjunctive to a relationship between behavior and environment represented in a schedule involving some other behavior. Also called evoked ...
avoidance contingency
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Response-contingent prevention of an aversive condition resulting in an increased frequency of that response.
bootleg reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcement that is not part of, and tends to undermine, an intervention.
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