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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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response key
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The specific design and construction of the key varies, depending upon the organism operating it. The term key has come to be a generic term, synonymous with manipulanda, foot ...
slope
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The slope of a cumulative record refers to the tangent of the angle the record forms with the abscissa. Where the rate of the performance is changing, the slope of the record at ...
total-task presentation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The simultaneous establishment of all links in a stimulus-response chain.
operant selection
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The selection of behavior during the lifetime of an individual organism; the modification of operant behavior by its consequences (see especially DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT and ...
precise behavioral measurement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The selection and implementation of accurate, clearly defined operations for recording and quantifying behavior. Precise measurement allows change to be measured and evaluated ...
psychological reality
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The role of some class of events in behavior, especially in psycholinguistics (as when grammatical transformations are demonstrated as something that speakers do with sentences).
negative punishment
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The response-produced presentation of positive punishers or the termination of negative punishers (or, the response decrement or suppression that results). The terminology closely ...
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- Behavior analysis (11155)
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- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
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