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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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reinforcement contingencies
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The reinforcement contingencies that an organism has been exposed to during its lifetime, including the resulting changes in behavior due to such exposure.
response competition
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The reduction of one response by the time and/or effort involved in concurrent responding. The terminology distinguishes reductions directly caused by concurrent responding from ...
resurgence
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The reappearance, during extinction, of previously effective behavior.
relative rate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The rate of one event (especially a response or a reinforcer) as a proportion of the summed rates of that and other events (e.g., given the rates of A and of B, the relative rate ...
regression
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The reappearance of previously extinguished behavior during the extinction of more recently reinforced behavior.
terminal link
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The rate reached on the fixed schedules at the moment of reinforcement.
operational statement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The product of breaking down a broad concept, such as "aggressiveness," into its observable and reliably measurable component behaviors (frequency of hitting or biting others, ...
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