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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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squaring a multiple-baseline graph
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Involves squaring the condition containing the largest value of the ordinate and applying that scale to the graphs for all baselines. A condition is defined as beginning with the ...
maintenance training
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Intervention procedures that increase the likelihood that changes in a target behavior will persist when the intervention is ended.
private events
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In verbal behavior, events accessible only to the speaker (usually, events inside the skin). Private events have the same physical status as public events, but it is more ...
meaning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In verbal behavior, a response to verbal stimuli; or the defining properties of a class, usually including some verbal components, in which the members can serve either as stimuli ...
transposition
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In transfer experiments, a reversal of stimulus function depending on control by relations among stimuli on a continuum rather than by their absolute values (e.g., a rat learns to ...
multiple baseline across stimulus conditions
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In this research design, a reinforcement procedure is applied in one situation but is withheld in other settings. When behavior changes in the situation where it is reinforced, ...
structural approach
Psychology; Behavior analysis
In the structural approach, behavior is analyzed in terms of its form or topography. For example, many developmental psychologists are interested in the intellectual growth of ...
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