6 TermsHome > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Principle of immediacy
Principle of immediacy
States that the more immediate the delivery of the reinforcer after the occurrence of the behavior, the more effective the reinforcer. To decide whether this principle has been followed, ask the question "Was the reinforcer delivered within one minute of the behaviour or while the behaviour was still occurring!?"
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Psychology
- Category: Behavior analysis
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Astronomy Category: General astronomy
Thirty metre Telescope (TMT)
The Thirty metre Telescope will be the world's largest when it's finished in 2018, at the summit of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. The telescope, known ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Browers Terms By Category
- SAT vocabulary(5103)
- Colleges & universities(425)
- Teaching(386)
- General education(351)
- Higher education(285)
- Knowledge(126)
Education(6837) Terms
- Ballroom(285)
- Belly dance(108)
- Cheerleading(101)
- Choreography(79)
- Historical dance(53)
- African-American(50)
Dance(760) Terms
- Radiology equipment(1356)
- OBGYN equipment(397)
- Cardiac supplies(297)
- Clinical trials(199)
- Ultrasonic & optical equipment(61)
- Physical therapy equipment(42)
Medical devices(2427) Terms
- Wine bottles(1)
- Soft drink bottles(1)
- Beer bottles(1)