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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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replication

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Repetition of any parts of an experiment.

within experiment replication

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Repetition of an entire phase during the course of an experiment.

relative stimulus control

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Relative stimulus control means that an organism responds to differences among the values of two or more stimuli. For example, a pigeon may be trained to peck in the presence of ...

phototaxis

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Rejection of substances with a given taste after their ingestion has been followed later by gastrointestinal distress or nausea (e.g., as produced by x-irradiation). It might be ...

supplementary reinforcers

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Reinforcers used in addition to the natural reinforcers.

noncontingent reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Reinforcement that depends, in some way, on responding. Reinforcement that is contingent on speaking, for example, may not follow every spoken response, but it depends on speaking ...