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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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limited hold
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A short period during which a reinforcement arranged by an interval schedule is held available. At the end of the limited hold, a response will not be reinforced until another ...
three-term contingency
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A set of functional relationships among distinct classes of antecedent stimuli, responses, and consequent stimuli that together constitute the model of how behavior is ...
value
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A set of behaviors, public and private, which a society reinforces. 2) Learned and unlearned reinforcers and aversive conditions.
tandem schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A schedule of intermittent reinforcement in which a single reinforcement is programmed by two schedules acting in succession without correlated stimuli. E.g., in tand FI 10 FR ...
variable interval
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A schedule in which a person is reinforced for the first response after a varying period of time has passed since the previous reinforcement. This schedule usually causes a ...
ratio schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A schedule in which the last of a specified number of responses is reinforced. In a fixed-ratio (FR) schedule, the number is constant from one reinforcer to the next; ...
variable ratio
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A response-based schedule of reinforcement in which the number of responses required for reinforcement changes after each reinforcer is presented. The average number of ...
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