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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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stimulus discrimination
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A response occurs more frequently in the presence of one stimulus than in the presence of another, usually as a result of a discrimination training procedure. 2) The tendency ...
primary reinforcer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A reinforcer whose effectiveness does not depend on its contingent relation to another reinforcer. 2) Any reinforcer which is necessary for the survival of the species. Food, ...
natural reinforcer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A reinforcer indigenous to the natural environment. A good mark is usually a natural reinforcer in a school setting as is pay for a worker. 2) A reinforcer that have not been ...
reflex
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A reflex is a relationship between an eliciting stimulus and an elicited response such as the contraction of the pupil of the eye as a result of shining light on it, the jerk ...
response cost
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A reductive procedure in which a specified amount of available reinforcers are continently withdrawn following the response. Usually these reinforcers are withdrawn from the ...
matching law
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A quantitative formulation stating that the relative rates of different responses tend to equal the relative reinforcement rates they produce. The generalized matching law ...
probability
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A proportion or relative frequency, either scheduled or derived from data. The probability of an event is given by the number of times it occurs divided by the opportunities ...
Sub-categories
- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)