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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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Consolidation of memory
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A theoretical process based on the assumption that something remembered is relatively impermanent immediately after learning, and takes some time to become fixed or consolidated.
Consequent techniques
Psychology; Behavior analysis
A behaviour analytic system designed to examine or change behaviour in a precisely measurable and accountable manner; restricted to those interventions that include an experimental design to assess ...
Consequence
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) An event produced by some other event, especially, in operant contexts, an event produced by a response. It might include stimulus presentation or removal, a change in contingencies, or any other ...
Conjunctive schedule
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A schedule in which a response is reinforced when each of two (or more) schedule requirements is satisfied (e.g., in conj FR 10 Fl 60-s, a response is reinforced only after at least 9 other ...
Conjugate reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Reinforcement in which some property of a reinforcer varies systematically with some property of responding (e.g., as when the sharpness of focus of a reinforcing visual stimulus increases with the ...
Conditioned reinforcer
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) Any reinforcing event that loses its effectiveness permanently through unpaired presentations That is, the presentation of the event without its being associated with any other reinforcers!. It ...
Conditioned reinforcement
Psychology; Behavior analysis
1) A hypothesis suggesting that a stimulus will become a conditioned reinforcer if it provides information about the occurrence of primary reinforcement. This notion has been largely discounted and ...
