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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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delayed matching to sample

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Behavior that occurs in a consistent relation to reinforced behavior and that, although reinforcers are not explicitly arranged for it, is maintained because it makes ...

delayed imitation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Imitation may occur when a model is present, or it may be delayed for some time after the model is absent. Delayed imitation is often taken as a more complex form of imitation ...

delayed conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) A respondent conditioning procedure in which the CS is presented a few seconds before the US occurs. 2) A respondent conditioning procedure in which the CS is presented for a ...

delay of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The time from a response to a later reinforcer. Reinforcers usually lose effectiveness as delay increases, but properties of delay procedures complicate the determination of the ...

delay conditioning

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Respondent conditioning in which the CS is presented for some fixed, extended time period (in most usages, no less than 5 seconds) before the US is presented.

deictic verbal behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Verbal behavior in which the function of the terms is based on their relation to the speaker (e.g., personal pronouns, here vs. there; this vs. that). In its dependence on ...