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General psychology
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Taste-aversion learning
Psychology; General psychology
A biological constraint on learning in which an organism learns in one trial to avoid a food whose ingestion is followed by illness.
Shaping by successive approximations
Psychology; General psychology
A behavioural method that reinforces responses that successively approximate and ultimately match the desired response.
Analytic psychology
Psychology; General psychology
A branch of psychology that views the person as a constellation of compensatory internal forces in a dynamic balance.
Negative reinforcement
Psychology; General psychology
A behaviour is followed by the removal of an aversive stimulus, increasing the probability of that behavior.
Negative punishment
Psychology; General psychology
A behaviour is followed by the removal of an appetitive stimulus, decreasing the probability of that behavior.
Positive punishment
Psychology; General psychology
A behaviour is followed by the presentation of an aversive stimulus, decreasing the probability of that behavior.
Imprinting
Psychology; General psychology
A primitive form of learning in which some infant animals physically follow and form an attachment to the first moving object they see and/or hear.
