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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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preparedness
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Some relations between stimuli, and between stimuli and responses, are more likely because of phylogenetic history. This phenomenon has been called preparedness. For example, a ...
sign tracking
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Sign tracking refers to approaching a sign (or stimulus) that signals a biologically relevant event. For example, dogs are required to sit on a mat and a stimulus that signals ...
self control
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Self control occurs when an organism produces a change in the environment which in turn alters the frequency of some performances in its own repertoire. Thus, the dieter who ...
learning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Roughly, acquisition, or the process by which behavior is added to an organism's repertoire; a relatively permanent change in behavior. The term has been used in so many ...
respondent conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Respondent conditioning occurs when an organism responds to a new event based on a history of association with a biologically important stimulus. The Russian physiologist Ivan ...
negative reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Removing an aversive stimulus as a consequence of a response resulting in the maintenance of or an increase in rate of the behavior. A behavior has been negatively reinforced ...
rate of reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Reinforcers per unit time; sometimes used in preference to reinforcement frequency because frequency occasionally refers not to reinforcers per unit time but rather to ...
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