Psychology RootsBase Rate Fallacy A base rate fallacy is committed when a person judges that an outcome will occur without considering prior knowledge …
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Barbiturates This is a class of drug derived from barbituric acid that is often used for medical purposes as a sedative and/or …
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Babbling (babbling stage) You have to love it when children begin to speak! The babbling stage is a very early stage of …
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B.F. Skinner B.F. Skinner (1904 – 1990) is best known for developing the theory of Operant Conditioning, which uses reinforcers or consequences …
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Beliefs A belief is a proposition that is regarded as true. A belief may be factually correct (“The world is round”) or …
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Behavior therapy The use of classical and operant conditioning principles to bring about therapeutic change. Techniques of behavior therapy include systematic desensitization, …
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Behavior setting In ecological psychology, the interaction of social, physical, and ecological situations with behavior.
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Behavior modification Application of operant conditioning principles to individual cases. This has been applied primarily in schools in the United States with …
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Behavioristic Of or like a behavioral approach.
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Behaviorism An approach to psychology that limits itself to a description of relationships between observable environmental events and the ensuing observable behavior …