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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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mand
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A verbal response that specifies its reinforcer. In human verbal behavior, manding is usually a higher-order class, in the sense that a newly acquired tact can be incorporated ...
parameter
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A variable that is held constant while some other variable changes. When different values of a parameter are examined, the parameter distinguishes different functions within a ...
observer drift
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A unintended change in the accuracy of an observer's performance. 2) A point at which indexes of agreement between observers begin to diverge.
response
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A unit of behavior with a clear beginning and end. Responses can be operant or respondent, depending on whether they are controlled by; stimuli which follow them or by stimuli ...
preaversive stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A stimulus that reliably precedes an aversive stimulus and thus may be a conditioned aversive stimulus. Such stimuli may reduce the responding maintained by positive ...
positive reinforcer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A stimulus that occurs immediately following responding, resulting in an increase in some aspect of the response class over baseline levels. 2) A reinforcing event in which ...
reversal design
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A single case of design in which baseline and intervention conditions are repeated with the same person. 2) an experimental design in which behavior is compared during ...
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