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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 duration schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer is provided after a target behavior has been performed continuously for a period, with the period varying around an average of n ...
negative practice
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A punishment procedure that requires the client to practice repeatedly the target behavior for a predetermined time period contingent on the occurrence of the unwanted behavior.
suppression
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A reduction in responding directly or indirectly produced by an aversive stimulus (e.g., by punishment or by the presentation of a preaversive stimulus). The term is sometimes ...
temporal extent
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A property of any phenomenon that occurs in time. Described in terms of the dimensional quantity of duration.
temporal locus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A property of any phenomenon that occurs in time. Described in terms of the dimensional quantity of latency.
stimulus induction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A process through which a stimulus acquires or loses the capacity to elicit a response, control a discriminative response, set up an emotional "state," etc., because of its ...
response induction
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A process through which a response changes its probability or rate because it shares properties with another response which has changed its probability or rate through other ...
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