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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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operandum
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Any device that may be operated by an organism and that defines an operant class in terms of an environmental effect (descriptive operant; see operant). Many operanda consist ...
successive approximation
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Any behavior similar to a target behavior; it is usually one of a series of behaviors differentially reinforced in a program of shaping toward the goal of producing the target ...
respondent
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An unconditioned or conditioned reflex in the sense of a response elicited by a particular stimulus. 2) A respondent is behavior that is elicited as a function of the previous ...
occasion
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An opportunity for a response or some other event, or the circumstances under which a contingency operates, as when discriminative stimuli set the occasion on which responses ...
tact
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An intraverbal is a class of verbal operants regulated by verbal discriminative stimuli. In everyday language, thematically related words (or sentences) are examples of ...
link
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An intact response or performance, that is combined with others in the formation of a behavioral chain. 2) A response in a chain or a component in a chained schedule.
operant conditioning
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An increase or decrease in operant behavior as a function of the consequences that follow responses. 2) Reinforcing consequences immediately following the response increase ...
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