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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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natural concept

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A class of discriminative stimuli produced through presentations of complex natural stimuli (as when a pigeon discriminates between pictures with and pictures without trees in ...

permanent product recording

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A behavioral recording method in which durable products of a behavior-such as the number of windows broken, widgets produced, homework problems handed in, rejects, percentage of ...

mammacare

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A behavioral program used to teach women effective self-examination of their breasts.

transitory behavior

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A behavior that does not leave an enduring product (e.g., smiling, paying attention, or teasing). Such a behavior needs to be observed and recorded as it occurs or preserved by ...

squaring a simple graph

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A a process performed by dividing the ordinate by the abscissa rounding the result up to the next whole number, and labeling the ordinate with numbers that increase in steps equal ...

outcome recording

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A a method of observation in which a response occurrence is recorded if the result of a behavioral episode is observed.

satiation

Psychology; Behavior analysis

1) Any operation that changes the status of a stimulus as a reinforcer or punisher deprivation, satiation, procedures that establish formerly neutral stimuli as conditioned ...