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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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reinforce
Psychology; Behavior analysis
To reinforce is to follow a performance with a reinforcing stimulus. Such a procedure may or may not increase the frequency of the performance, depending upon collateral ...
reprimand
Psychology; Behavior analysis
To reduce the frequency of a target behavior by making disapproval contingent on the target behavior.
sd/cs test
Psychology; Behavior analysis
To determine if a stimulus is an SD or a CS. look at its history of conditioning. Look for a plausible US ( UR relation; and alternatively. Look for a plausible SD.
outcome variables
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Those "bottomline" measurable factors that characterize the outcome goal, such as annual profit, and improved academic and social performance.
schedules of reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The ways in which reinforcement is contingent on behavior or, to put it another way, the rules that tell which responses are reinforced.
toothpaste
Psychology; Behavior analysis
theory of abnormal behavior. Abnormal behavior flows out of sick people like toothpaste squeezed from a tube. The abnormal behavior results from inner pressure.
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