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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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defensive conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Respondent conditioning in which the US is an aversive or noxious stimulus.
deadline principle
Psychology; Behavior analysis
If an indirect-acting contingency is to increase or maintain performance, it should involve a deadline.
decoding
Psychology; Behavior analysis
the learner's behavior with respect to the item to be remembered at the time it is recalled.
dead man's test
Psychology; Behavior analysis
An informal test of whether a particular event is a behavior to the effect that, "If a dead man can do it, it is not behavior."
postreinforcement pause
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The pause in responding that occurs after reinforcement on some intermittent schedules (e.g., FR, FI). 2) The period of no responding following a reinforcer, especially in an ...
percentage reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The omission of a fixed proportion of the reinforcers arranged by a schedule. For example, in an FR 100 schedule with 50 percent reinforcement, only half of the completed ...
over-all rate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The mean rate over a fairly large segment of behavior. See also rate of responding. 2) The mean rate for a still longer period of time (of the order of minutes or hours). ...
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