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Behavior analysis
Behavior analysis is an approach to psychology that concerns itself primarily with observing, analysing and attempting to understand and predict the way humans behave and interact.
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unlearned aversive condition
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus, event, or condition that is aversive, though not as a result of pairing with other aversive conditions.
unlearned reinforcer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus, event, or condition that is a reinforcer, though not as a result of pairing with another reinforcer.
learned reinforcer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus, event, or condition that is a reinforcer because it has been paired with another reinforcer.
warning stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus that precedes an aversive condition and thus becomes a learned aversive stimulus.
terminal rate
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus that functions as a reinforcer because of its contingent relation to another reinforcer. Such stimuli have also been called secondary reinforcers, but this designation is best reserved for ...
punishing stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus that decreases the frequency of an operant that produces it.
shock
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A stimulus sometimes used as an aversive stimulus. Shock is usually delivered through a grid floor, parallel rods on which the organism stands and far enough apart that feces or urine cannot ...
