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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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maintenance procedures
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Strategies used to promote the persistence of behaviors under natural environmental conditions, such as alterations in reinforcing contingencies, fading prompts, and teaching ...
strain
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Strain is a term used to describe the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is reinforced on a large fixed ratio schedule. Under most conditions, ...
natural consequences
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Stimulus changes which are produced by (and are dependent on) the behavior of the individual who experiences them. Natural consequences are contrasted with artificial or , by ...
recovery from punishment
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Stopping the punishment or penalty contingency for a previously punished response causes the response rate to increase to its rate before the punishment or penalty contingency.
stereotyped behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Stereotyped behavior that reliably occurs late in interstimulus intervals in superstition procedures or temporal conditioning, and usually related topographically to the behavior ...
principle of immediacy
Psychology; Behavior analysis
States that the more immediate the delivery of the reinforcer after the occurrence of the behavior, the more effective the reinforcer. To decide whether this principle has been ...
principle of deprivation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
States that the more deprived a person is of a certain reinforcer, the more effective that reinforcer will be. To decide whether the principle has been followed, ask "Has the ...
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- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)