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The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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polydipsia
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The schedule-induced enhancement of water intake. 2) A form of adjunctive behavior involving excessive consumption of water. See adjunctive behavior. 3) Polydipsia or ...
shock-shock interval
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The scheduled time between shocks on an avoidance schedule. 2) In avoidance conditioning, the interval between successive shocks when no response has been made in that ...
resistance to extinction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The responses entitled, the time elapsed, or the number of trials until performance has met some extinction criterion (e.g., the number of responses emitted before 10 minutes ...
reinforcer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The reinforcer, or the reinforcing stimulus, is the event which increases the frequency of the performance it follows. A reinforcing stimulus may also have other effects on ...
recovery
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The recurrence of the rate of a response that had been reduced when aversive stimuli no longer are present or delivered contingent on the response. 2) Return to an earlier ...
spontaneous recovery
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) After a period of extinction, rate of response may be close to operant level. After some time, the organism is again placed in the setting and extinction is continued. ...
operant level
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The rate of an operant before any known conditioning. For example, the rate of key pecking before a peck-food contingency has been established. 2) How often, how rapidly, or ...
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