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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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physical guidance

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A form of response priming in which the appropriate body part or parts are physically guided through the proper motion by another person. For example, a swimming coach guiding the ...

run of responses

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A fast burst of responding. For example, after the postreinforcement pause on a fixed-ratio schedule, an organism will rapidly emit the responses required by the ratio.

predictive stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A discriminative stimulus. A stimulus predicts an event if the probability of the event given the stimulus differs from that without the stimulus.

natural discriminative stimulus

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A discriminative stimulus indigenous to- the natural environment, not one artificially introduced. The printed word is a natural SD for reading the word; a hint is not. The hour ...

whole -interval time-sampling

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A direct observational procedure in which the presence or absence of specific behaviors is recorded within short uniform time intervals. (E.g., an observer observes for 10 seconds ...

quarter-life

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A dimensional quantity reflecting the time required to emit 2 5 % of the responses that occur during an interval (most often, under a fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement). ...