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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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respondent generalization

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Respondent generalization occurs when an organism shows a conditioned response to values of the CS that have not been trained. For example, if a tone of 375 Hz is paired with ...

temporal conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Respondent conditioning in which a US is presented at regular intervals (e.g., every 10 minutes). Conditioning is said to have occurred when the CR tends to occur shortly before ...

respondent discrimination

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Respondent discrimination occurs when an organism shows a conditioned response to one stimulus but not to other similar events. A discrimination procedure involves positive and ...

pain-elicited aggression

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Respondent aggression or attack elicited by an aversive event. The same as respondent aggression.

within session replication

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Repetition of the basic procedure used under control and experimental conditions throughout each session,

reproduction

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Repetition of results, usually as a consequence of replication of procedures.