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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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local rate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Rate of responding in some small re ion of a curve. Contrasted with overall rate. See also rate of responding. 2) Rate measured over a short time. The tangent of the ...
operant reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Presenting a reinforcing stimulus when a response occurs, or arranging such presentation. 2) Operant behavior refers to those performances which are increased in frequency by ...
respondent extinction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Present the conditioned stimulus without pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus or with an already established conditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimulus will lose ...
selection by consequences
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Operant selection or the ontogenic analogue of phylogenic or Darwinian selection, expressed as an abbreviated form of the selection of behavior by its consequences. In a more ...
response class
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Operant responses that may vary in topography but produce the same or similar consequences. For example, saying "Please open the door" and physically opening the door are ...
observational learning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Learning based on observing the responding of another organism (and/or its consequences). Observational learning need not involve imitation (e.g., organisms may come to avoid ...
learned helplessness
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) In the phenomenon called learned helplessness, an animal is first exposed to inescapable and severe aversive stimulation. Eventually the animal gives up and stops attempting to ...
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