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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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conclusions from yoking must be cautiously drawn
Psychology; Behavior analysis
For example, assume two types of rats equally distributed among groups in a yoking experiment on the role of avoidance in shock induced ulcers. Sensitive types are prone to ulcers ...
conceptual stimulus control
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Responding occurs more often in the presence of one stimulus class and less often in the presence of another stimulus class because of concept training.
concept training
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcing or punishing a response in the presence of one stimulus class and extinguishing it or allowing it to recover in the presence of another stimulus class.
concept formation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The formation of a discrimination based on a class of stimuli such that an organism generalizes among all stimuli within the class but discriminates them from those in other ...
concept
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A property or set of properties of stimuli. For example, the concept "red" is a property shared by all of the things we call "red." 2) One or a set of abstract critical ...
computer assisted or aided instruction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Instruction aided by computer technology. Computers may present curriculum, request student responses and provide feedback and reinforcement. They may permit responses to be ...
compound schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A schedule in which two or more individual schedules are combined. The components may operate successively in alternation (multiple and mixed) or as a sequence (chained and ...
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- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)