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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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Psychology > Behavior analysis 
shaping
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The process of building an operant by reinforcing only those responses that are closest to it. When the operant we want is a response to a certain kind of stimulus (such as ...
reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The procedure of providing consequences for a behavior that increase or maintain the frequency of that behavior. 2) The operation of immediately following responses with ...
punishment
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The procedure of providing consequences for a behavior that decrease the frequency of that behavior. 2) A procedure in which a punisher or aversive stimulus is presented ...
law of effect
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The principle that, in any given situation, the probability of a behavior occurring is a function of the consequences that behavior has had in that situation in the past. An ...
stimulus equivalence
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The presentation of one class of stimuli that occasions responses made to other stimulus classes. 2) Classes of stimuli characterized by reflexivity, symmetry and transitivity ...
topography
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) The physical form or characteristics of the response. For example, the way that a rat presses a lever. 2) With behavior, the form of responses in three-dimensional space.
self-management
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A procedure in which individuals change some aspect of their own behavior. One or more of four major components are generally involved. (1) Self-selection of goals; (2) monitoring ...
Sub-categories
- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)