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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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setting event
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The context or circumstance in which an environment-behavior relationship occurs. The event changes the strengths of stimuli and responses involved in an environment-behavior ...
process
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The changes in behavior produced by an experimental operation. 2) Any change in rate of responding, specifically as the result of an experimental operation.
stimulus generalization
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The behavioral contingencies in the presence of one stimulus affects the frequency of the response in the presence of another stimulus. 2) The tendency for the effects of ...
rate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The average frequency of behavior emitted during a standard unit of time. Formula. Number of responses divided by the number of time units. For example, if 20 responses occur ...
ratio strain
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The appearance of pauses in VR responding, or in FR responding at times other than after a reinforcer ; a result of large ratio size and/or low reinforcement frequency. 2) A ...
stimulus control
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Systematic influence of an antecedent stimulus (or set of stimuli) on the probability of occurrence of a response. The response form or frequency differs from under one ...
topography of response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Spatial configuration or form (e.g., how an organism operates an operandum or moves from one place to another), sometimes also specifying location (e.g., the place on a key the ...
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- Behavior analysis (11155)
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- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
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