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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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dependency
Psychology; Behavior analysis
roughly, a contingency completely specified by the experimenter or with a conditional probability very close to I.O. dependent group contingency
density
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A synonym for rate, as in reinforcement density or shock density.
demonstration research
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A style of research in which the primary goal is to show that a certain outcome is possible. See Explanatory research.
delphi method
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A strategy for identifying the best examples of any particular class of items is to ask a panel of experts independently to suggest an optimal list. By pooling the items and ...
delay-reduction hypothesis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The hypothesis that it is necessary for a stimulus to be paired with a primary reinforcer in order for it to become a conditioned reinforcer. The hypothesis has been largely ...
delayed response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A discriminative response that occurs some time after the removal of a discriminative stimulus, as when the sample in a matching-to-sample procedure is turned off several seconds ...
delayed prompting
Psychology; Behavior analysis
When the natural antecedent stimulus (S) fails to evoke a given response, an artificial SD (prompt), usually the correct answer, is inserted to occasion the behavior so it can ...
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