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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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respondent level
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The magnitude of the CR before any conditioning has taken place.
sensitization
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The lowering of a threshold, as when prior delivery of an aversive stimulus lowers the intensity at which a noise elicits a startle response.
reflexive relation or reflexivity
Psychology; Behavior analysis
the identity relation. See EQUIVALENCE CLASS.
topographical tagging
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The identification of different functional properties of responding by correlating each with a different topography, especially a different spatial location. For example, shock ...
place learning vs. response learning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The historical issue of whether organisms learned stimuli or movements (e.g., whether a rat in a maze learns a sequence oriented to stimuli outside the maze or just a particular ...
subset of behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The group of simpler response components that may combine to form a more complex behavior.
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- Behavior analysis (11155)
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- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)