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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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differential reinforcement of alternative behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The replacement of an inappropriate response with a specific appropriate response that produces the same reinforcing outcome (i.e., either the presentation of a reinforcing ...
differential reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The occurrence of a reinforcement on selected occasions as or after one topography of a performance as opposed to another topography, is called differential reinforcement. For ...
differential reinforced
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Any stimulus with a discriminative function; according to an older usage, a stimulus correlated with reinforcement when another is correlated with extinction. The latter usage has ...
differential rate reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcement (continuous or intermittent) which depends upon the immediately receding rate of responding. This may be the reciprocal either of the time elapsing between the ...
differential punishment procedure
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Punish one set of responses and allow another set of responses to recover.
differential penalizing of high rates
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Loss or prevention of a reinforcer occurs for each response that follows the preceding response by less than some minimum delay.
differential conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
usually, producing a discrimination in respondent conditioning. See RESPONDENT DISCRIMINATION.
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