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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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punisher
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An event that, when made contingent on a behavior, decreases the frequency of that behavior. 2) A stimulus that, when presented immediately following a response, effects a ...
s delta
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An event in the presence of which a target behavior is not reinforced. (Pronounced "ess-delta.") See discriminative stimulus. 2) An S-delta represents the particular occasion ...
vacuum activity
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An ethological term referring to a response occurring not in the presence of the stimulus that usually produces it, but rather in the presence of one that usually produces some ...
sequence effect
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An effect on a subject's behavior resulting from contact with a prior condition. 2) A situation in which one experimental treatment phase within the experiment influences ...
overshadowing
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An attenuation of respondent conditioning with one stimulus caused by the presence of another stimulus (e.g., if soft tone and loud bell together precede food, tone may remain ...
withdrawal design
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An aspect of an experiment directed toward establishing experimental control unambiguously to demonstrate a functional relation. Experimental designs control for extraneous ...
prompt
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An antecedent that induces a person to perform a behavior that otherwise does not occur. 2) An added stimulus in a discrimination-training procedure designed to increase the ...
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