Behavioral concepts

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learning procedure in which biologically potent stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus

learning to anticipate future events on the basis of past experience with the consequences of one's own behavior

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behavior

connection between ideas or mental states due to similarity or proximity in psychology

Habituation is a form of non-associative learning in which an organism's non-reinforced response to an inconsequential stimulus decreases after repeated or prolonged presentations of that stimulus. For example, organisms may habituate to repeated sudden loud noises when they learn that these have no consequences.

psychophysics law that the minimum perceptible increase of stimulus is proportional to the stimulus and that intensity of our sensation increases logarithmically

information processing about social situations

science in which techniques derived from behaviorism are systematically applied to improve socially significant behaviors

relationship between stress and performance

theory of learning and behavior

in psychology, an object or event that elicits a sensory or behavioral response in an organism

social model of human interaction consisting of the three roles of victim, rescuer and persecutor

learning that occurs through observing the behaviour of others

280px|thumb|Excited audience members in Australia Stimulation is the encouragement of development or the cause of activity in general. For example, "The press provides stimulation of political discourse." An engaging activity can be described as "stimulating", regardless of its physical effects on senses. Stimulate means to act as a stimulus to; stimulus means something that rouses the recipient to activity; stimuli is the plural of stimulus.

empirical relationship in psychophysics between actual and perceived changed intensity of stimulus

in classical conditioning, the observation that a familiar stimulus takes longer to acquire meaning than a new stimulus

facet of operant conditioning; change in a human or animal's surroundings that occurs after a given behavior or response which reduces the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future

behaviour that enables a person to get along in their environment with greatest success and least conflict with others

fading of non-reinforced conditioned response over time

behavioral paradigm in which organisms learn to predict aversive events

organism's immediate response to a change in its environment

An ethogram is a catalogue or inventory of behaviours or actions exhibited by an animal used in ethology.

psychological theory of human language, developed by Steven C. Hayes, arguing that the building block of human language and higher cognition is relating (creating bidirectional links between things)

characterization of a statistical unit (such as a neuron) as a black box model, predicting a quantitative response to a quantitative stimulus, for example one administered by a researcher

psychological paradigm for behavior analysis

description of the process of psychological conditioning

behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment

type of social learning

anxiety among males who feel they do not meet cultural standards of masculinity

social-psychological concept

theory that exposure to nature can improve concentration

research method