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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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variable-interval schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule of intermittent reinforcement in which reinforcements are programmed according to a random series of intervals having a given mean and lying between arbitrary extreme ...

percentile-reinforcement schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which the eligibility of a response to produce a reinforcer depends on its location within a response distribution (e.g., a schedule for long IRTs might reinforce ...

progressive schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which requirements change progressively with each reinforcer (e.g., in one progressive ratio schedule, the ratio increases by 5 responses after each reinforcer). The ...

variable time schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which reinforcement is delivered contingent on the passage of a variable time interval, not upon the occurrence of a particular response.

ratio schedules of reinforcement

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which reinforcement is delivered contingent on the last of a number of responses. (a) Fixed ratio (FR) schedule-A reinforcement schedule in which a constant number ...

titration schedule

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A schedule in which one response changes a variable in one direction and either a second response or nonoccurrence of the first changes it in the other (e.g., one response ...